Base Exposure or Standard Print Time

Base Exposure or Standard Print Time

The first step when working with a new process, printer or printing substrate is to establish a base exposure or base printing time. This is the amount of exposure needed to make your sensitised paper completely black in areas on your digital negative with no ink on...
Digital Negatives

Digital Negatives

There are two options for your negatives – actual film or digital negatives. There is a lot to be said for actual negatives but as I haven’t taken too many black and white photographs in 10×8 I thought it best to start with digital negatives (it gives...