After I worked for two days on the photography transfers, I went back into the darkroom developing some of the photos from Yosemite. There were five in a row of Half Dome that I started developing - got to the first two. These five film shots were taken pretty much in the middle of the day, so next round of developing I will need to do some dodging of the trees in the foreground. Or, maybe, just take out that portion and increase the skyline in the upper foreground. There is a shot of some faint lightening in the background in one of the pics.
Once I cleaned up in the darkroom, I couldn't help myself, and I found a recent photo of some roses I took that are in our backyard, and printed one out. Then I proceeded to work on that for a while. Of course dinner preparation got in the way of that. This time, however, I did tape off the sides with painters blue tape - the thin smooth one. I also picked up some more 140 lb water color paper. (I made a mistake the other day by stating I was using 130 lb paper, when it was 140 lb. Oops! Here's a sample of the original photo and the photo transfer so you can see the difference. I think on this one I didn't click hard enough on 'mirror image', so they're not exactly going the same direction.
I need to take an afternoon and cut some mats for the photo transfers so I can have them ready to get juried in on Wednesday. I think I better do that!
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