Category: Darkroom Printing

How to Sepia Tone a Photograph

Sepia toning a black and white print will add a very classic, timeless look to any black and white silver print and essentially turns a grayscale photo into a brownscale photo. This simple process...

Split Filter Printing

When printing black and white prints in the darkroom, you essentially have two controls at your disposal: brightness and contrast. Brightness is controlled by the aperture and density of the film and contrast is...

Black and White Prints in the Darkroom

Printing black and white photography in the darkroom is still not uncommon, quote a few photographers still using traditional film photography techniques likely have a darkroom equipped for black and white film. Additionally, chances...

Contact Print

A contact print is a photographic image produced by laying the film, typically a negative, directly against photographic paper and exposing the paper to light. The term “contact print” derives from the process of...

Contact Sheet or Proof

The contact sheet (also called contract proof) is a positive print of all the negative images from a roll of 35mm film or medium format film. Contact sheets are typically made to allow the...