

>So I need to see a print come up in developer tray in the darkroom.

I hope this helps and despite my english. Try to find some toner without rotten eggs smell. The picture will appear under any kind of light. You don«t need a developer bath, you can take your B/W copy and, after bleaching it, you can put the copy in a "sepia toner" bath (or another kind of toner). >So.need to see a print come up in developer tray in the darkroom. There is also a (new?) photographic paper that develops in a mere 10 seconds. Of course amber safe lights work equally well, and easier on the eye then red. One thing I would do if I could have was to shoot at 12 fps to gain extra stop and reduce the time it took to develop, although the timing of it worked out well for the scene. I shot it wide open and it was probable down a couple stops from normal, but that was OK since it was supposed to be dark in there anyway.

We had an 8x10 B&W picture develop before our eyes in the bath. I think I used a magenta color instead and it worked out perfectly. We shot in a practical location and for some reason I can't remember, I didn't have a red gel on hand. In other words, don't have a neon colored developer tray because the light bouncing off that will affect the paper.Īnother crazy idea - maybe use red dyed water? Thinking that the red water will help filter out any white light that would be around and since the scene will be primarily red anyway you might not see the red in the water or notice that the paper would be stained that color. Be careful, however, because any retroreflection that happens will fog the paper before it's developed. I don't think photographic paper is sensitive to UV light, but I could be totally wrong there - I'm sure someone here will correct me.

You might try a little white edge, carefully kept off the paper itself and underexpose the paper with the enlarger (hoping that any white spill will flash the paper a bit) and see how that works.Īs a crazy idea, you might try UV light and have UV sensitive objects around the developer tray that will retroreflect the UV light and give you something to focus on and something other than red light. If all you have in the room is red light, you're libel to end up with an image that looks (and probably is) soft. Red light is, however, very difficult to focus in. You can have all the red light you want and not expose the paper. If you're talking about a black and white photo - B&W photographic paper is not sensitive to red light at all. But seem to remember something about putting it in the developer and waiting for it to almost come up, then turn on (red) light enough for exposure and watch it the rest of the way. >.Need to see a print come up in developer tray in the darkroom.ġ6mm, prime, probably '77. 16mm, prime, probably 7277.Ĭan think of several ways to do it, including some post effects work. So I need to see a print come up in developer tray in the darkroom.
