This week we took our black and white negatives and made enlargements out of them. You first place your negative in the negative carrier, and line it up with the easle. You then adjust the height and focus to change the size and focus of the image to be produces. A test strip is made then, by cutting a piece of photo paper in half. The light of the enlarger is turned off and the photo paper is placed on the easle. A piece of plastic is used to cover the majority of the photopaper. This is exposed for five seconds, and you continually expose more of the paper in five second intervals up to 25 seconds. You use this to find the ideal exposure time for the image you want to produce. When you choose the ideal exposure time, you make sure the light from the enlarger is off, and then place a piece of photopaper on the easel, and expose it for the time you have chosen. Then develop your print.
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