Capturing What I've Learned

Cleaned Negatives
grabbed the negatives and used photo wipes to clean them. Folded the photo wipes over the negative strips, leaving a portion of the negative sticking out. Pulled that part of the negative out of the photo wipes, while having the photo wipe pressed against the negative. Dried with a special napkin for the negatives.

Loading Negative Into Enlarger

loaded negative into enlarger by lifting up the metal covering on the stand, and slid the negative into slot for the film. Turned on the light to shine through the negatives onto a frame



Focused Image
turned a knob in the back to move the stand up and down, until the representation of the negatives fitted the frame. Then moved the frame around to show a point of focus, then we turned another knob till the photo was finely grained.

Set Aperture
To the left of the enlarger there was a aperture setting machine. It had two knobs one on the left for minutes and one on the right for seconds. There was a button that you pressed, and for however much the time you set it on, was the time that the light was exposed the photo paper.

Made Test Strip
Made test strip by tearing off one-third or one-fourth of a piece of photo paper, and sliding it under the frame. Then we set the aperture to 1 sec, 2 sec 3 sec, 4 sec, and 5 sec, to see at what exposure we needed for the whole picture.

Made Final Print
After seeing at what exposure we needed we went back and set it to that aperature. Then did what we needed to do in the chemicals. Going through the chemical that exposed the film, then to the stopper, then to the fixer, then to the washer.