Contact sheet - Year 1

Low-Key and High-Key lighting

Low-Key lighting - Low-key lighting is a styled of lighting for photography. Low-key lighting often uses only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light or a simple reflector. Low-key light accentuates the contours of an object by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector illuminates the shadow areas to control the contrast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-key_lighting

Hight-key lighting - High-key lighting simply refers to images that are mostly bright, with a range of light tone and whites and not very many blacks or mid-tones. In hight-key photography, tones that generally would have been mid-range become white ans white becomes, well,white. http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/3558/using-lighting-style-to-create-mood-high-key-and-low-key-lighting/

Studio Health and Safety 

• Make sure everyone in studio knows where everything is so chance of tripping up on equipment is reduced as photography take place in a dark room.
• Dont change bulbs.
• Make sure all cables and bags are out the way.  

Aperture and shutter speed 

Aperture: f2, f2.8, f4, f5.6, f8, f11, f16, f22, f32

Shutter speed: 1 sec, 1/2 sec, 1/4 sec, 1/8 sec, 1/15 sec, 1/30 sec, 1/60 sec, 1/125 sec

Shutter speed

What is shutter speed?

Shutter speed is the length of exposure when using a camera. Each shutter value represents a "stop" of light and it is measured in fractions of a second. The faster the shutter speed the more detail in the picture is shown. 
                                                        
Set up of the studio and camera

Put the camera on 200 ISO and a aperture of f16 and 
shutter speed of 20 seconds. Make sure studio is dark 
as possible with no light coming through.

Photograms

Health and Safety notes

When using mixed toners make sure you wear gloves to avoid the skin from irritating, goggles are meant to be worn, and use in a well-ventilated room. Make sure you rinse prints well between bleaching & developing so the risk of skin being damaged is minimised.  

When mixing toners you need to wear gloves, goggles and respirator. Mix the powders in glove box when possible. A good ventilated room is required here. Make sure that sulfide or selenium toners aren't contaminated with acids as this is dangerous.  

1:1 Printing Step by Step guid 

1.  Set up enlarger ready for printing. Adjust the height of the enlarger head to 

     ensure light covers the printing area. Set all filters to 0 (CMY), set the aperture to 

     f/8 and the timer to 3.0 seconds. 

2.  In the darkroom you need to set your piece of photographic paper down on a surface              under the 

3.  Place your chosen objects on to your photographic paper in any way you like 

4.  Project your source of light onto the photographic paper and expose it to the light for                chose time. (Time of light exposure can be worked out o n a test sheet.)

5.  After you have exposed your photographic paper you can process the print in the                      chemical baths. In the order of: Developer, stop bath, fixer and wash. 

6.  Times to keep photos in chemicals:

      Developer - 2 minutes 

      Stop bath - 30 seconds 

      Fixer - 5 minutes

      Wash - 10 minutes 

Equipment

Enlarger

Chemicals

Objects to make the photogram

Multigrade light sensitive paper