{"id":3814,"date":"2018-11-19T00:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2018-11-19T00:38:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:38:37","slug":"christening-the-dark-box-with-a-session-of-paper-negs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/3814","title":{"rendered":"Christening the dark box with a session of paper negs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really must stop posting things on Facebook without posting them here first. I’ve reverted back to my “nothing on Facebook or Twitter that isn’t already somewhere else” policy.<\/p>\n

Feeling a bit post viral a couple of weekend back I stayed indoors and had some fun with paper negatives and using my dark box for the first time. I built it months ago. I’ve discovered that developing Illford multigrade in Kodak Xtol 1:1 for 3 minutes gives really nice negs but ISO goes right down to nearly nothing so no good for portraits. Also it doesn’t work for Harman direct positive. I guess that needs a developer with metol in it or something. I got the idea of using film developer from one of Borut Peterlin’s YouTube videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wilting flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The set up using my new LED light source.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The dark box – formerly an IKEA storage box.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Inside the dark box there is a shelf of the dry area and a wet area below. Tray push underneath the shelf when not actually in use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really must stop posting things on Facebook without posting them here first. I’ve reverted back to my “nothing on Facebook or Twitter that isn’t already somewhere else” policy. Feeling a bit post viral a couple of weekend back I stayed indoors and had some fun with paper negatives and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}