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Introduction to darkroom printing

Your first time at the enlarger

Got developed negatives and want to see how they become paper prints? This is the first session: a practical, hands-on introduction to the darkroom.

The first time under the red light

Walking into a dark lab with the red light on and watching an image slowly appear in the developer tray is an experience you don’t forget. No app comes close.

This session is for anyone who has never done it. We work at the enlarger: we project the negative onto the paper, focus, expose, develop and see the result. Simple, but far more satisfying than it sounds.

If you want to go further — local controls, dodging and burning, fibre-base papers — the Darkroom Printing workshop is the natural next step.

Contents

  • Orientation in the darkroom: materials, safety and workflow
  • The enlarger: types, parts, focus and light measurement
  • Test strip: how to read it and decide the exposure
  • Tray development: developer, stop bath and fixer
  • Washing and drying the print
  • Reading the result and basic adjustments

What’s included

  • RC photographic paper (10 sheets)
  • Chemicals: paper developer, stop bath, fixer
  • Use of the enlarger and darkroom

What to bring

  • Developed 35mm negatives if you have them. If not, we work with sample negatives.

Not included

  • Additional paper (+€2/sheet RC, +€4/sheet fibre)
  • Film development (if you don’t have negatives, do the B&W Development workshop first)

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Objectiu
Make your first paper print using an enlarger, understanding the process from projection through to development.
Metodologia
Hands-on practice: each student works at the enlarger with their own negatives or sample negatives.
Resultat
1–2 paper prints made by the student. Understanding of the complete negative → print cycle.
Prerequisits
No prior development experience needed. If you have your own negatives, even better; if not, we work with sample material.
A qui va dirigit
People who have never been in a darkroom and want to discover how a paper print is made.

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