The technical and aesthetic qualities of darkrooms prints produced by photographers such as Nadar and Ansell Adams have always fascinated me due to their bold and varied nature of grey, white and black tones. During a darkroom workshop session with Alan Jones, I was introduced to an alternative and more technical approach to printing; this being the grid method.
This is where you expose the photographic paper twice, the first exposure not using an multi-grade filters, and the second using a multi-grade filter of five. After using the grid method to find the two correct exposure times and a little use of dodging and burning (with my hands) I was able to create a print I am extremely happy with, especially when comparing it to my originally scanned version.
Although I am more interested in pursuing the remainder of this project in colour, this is definitely a skill which I will use throughout the rest of my time here at Manchester's school of art.
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