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Thursday, January 11, 2007

These are some that I printed on photographic paper using a homemade 'enlarger' (very loosely used). It was a cardboard box filled with tinfoil with a hole on each end, a light bulb in one end and the other end open, two sheets of paper as diffusers in the middle, a plastic picture holder with a negative in it taped to the box, then a plate with a 55mm SLR lens in front of that, all inside a changing bag. I taped the paper to the wall in the dark and made the exposure, then developed it in some tinfoil casserole dishes. They aren't straight scans, the contrast was pretty crappy in the prints due to light leakage.

It was a pretty fun project, but I want a real enlarger now... The good thing about it was, all I had to buy was the trays, paper and print developer, which were about 30 bucks. The fixer, lens, and light bulb were only about another 30 actually, and I had the boxes, tinfoil, changing bag, and negative holder.



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