> Most of my photos are B+W and I use ilford Multi - Grade
> paper + filters.
So now I've got a darkroom set up, I'm torn.. I _can_ take lots of photos
now so I can experiment with things, and it theoretically won't cost me
much, because I can just do contact prints -- but I find that I'm barely
making any enlargements from the contact sheets because of the time it'll
take.
This means that while I can make guesses as to how well composed the shots
are based on the contact prints, and general exposure, I can't do much
beyond that.
But taking the time to print up 36 4x5 prints is a pretty imposing
proposition -- what do people out there who have darkrooms do in this sort
of situation? Do you just do contact sheets then enlarge the "good" ones to
8x10? All of them to 4x5 and pick through them there? Something in the
middle? Do you just get an 'eye' for the ones that're worth enlarging,
because at the moment I can certainly tell the duds at 1:1 size, but there's
a lot of others that might be worth blowing up, but there's still a lot of
them to make up intermediate sizes of before I go the whole way.
Hopefully it's somewhat clear what I'm asking about here..
-- dan
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