What We Did In The Dark Room

In class we experimented the way in which we could develop our pictures. We went through different techniques that we could each individually use to make our pictures look more interesting. When printing a photo you have to put your piece of photographic paper into a tray of developing fluids. These fluids, on contact with your photographic paper, make the image that you've projected; come out. You can experiment with how you apply this fluid and this can make interesting styles and patterns on the paper. For instance, an interesting way in which you can do this is by dipping your hand in the developer and press it on your paper. Something you have to be careful of, which I found out myself, is the strength in which you apply your hand to the paper as sometimes you can have the imprints of the details of your skin on the paper. By doing this, only the area in which you pressed your hand on gets developed. You can also try different ways in doing this, only dipping half of the paper in the developer, using a paintbrush to paint on the fluid etc.