Yesterday morning I went thru my recently developed negatives and noted the ones I felt would be worthy of printing. There were several that I found to be of interest. I started with a picture of a grove of young oak trees on the side of a hill that was taken in the early to mid-morning on a drive on Rattlesnake Bar Road in 2005. That was when I first got together with my husband-to-be at the time, and since he was into photography too, we took many of these types of day drives.
Because I have new equipment that I'm not familiar with, I took it slow and easy but steady, in determining the exposure time for this particular picture. It's always a good idea to keep a log of the timing and f-stops for each negative, so as not to have to recreate again in the future. It's just common sense to save oneself some precious time!
I did have one bit of a slow down. One of my timers went out on me, but luckily had an 'antique' version of the GraLab timer that a friend of mine had given me - and it works! So I will use the antique for the time being. I'd love to break down and get one of those fancier modern timers for the dry side of the darkroom - soon though.
After a couple of tries, I was able to print out a pretty good version on RC paper. I'm still practicing, but will switch over to fiberbase when I get the whole print processing down pat! Needless to say, I had fun and I felt like I was accomplishing something very important!
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