Contrast Filters & Lessons Learned

Darkroom lesson #1 (aside from the obvious of not getting light on your unused paper): Do NOT forget your negatives in the enlarger! This is one lesson I had to learn the hard way... I forgot a strip of negatives in the enlarger as I rushed to pack up all my belongings after class last week. I didn't even realize I had forgotten it until three days later. When I got back to class today, I searched everywhere for it, with the hopes that a good samaritan had set it aside in the lost and found. There were several other negative strips there, but none were mine. I lost five photos, including the one in my last post. Bummers. That's one mistake I'll be sure to never make again.

Today in class I worked on this photo I took of Dean last weekend at The Pancake House (yum). I made six prints, using contrast filters 0-5... in this case, contrast filter #3 looked the best out of all of them... I might even want to try 2 1/2 later. Next class I'll try printing some other photos.

Hope you all had a nice weekend.

Photo taken with my Canon EOS-3
50mm f/1.4
Tri X Pan 400 film