Detailed Test Strips for Split Filter Printing - Learn a New Darkroom Technique

In this video, I demonstrate how I make a test print (as opposed to a test strip) when I use split filter printing, measured in stops instead of equal time increments. This allows me to judge contrast and exposure at the same time. This video will be useful to anyone who makes silver gelatin prints in the wet darkroom and is familiar with split filter printing.

The process is:
• Using a no. 5 magenta filter (or magenta=200), expose 4 seconds, followed by increments of 2, 2, 3, 5, and 6, in horizontal strips
• Using a no. 0 yellow filter (or yellow=80), expose 4 seconds, followed by increments of 2, 2, 3, 5, and 6, in vertical strips
• Develop, stop, and fix the test, then evaluate in the light for both exposure and contrast

00:00 Intro
00:08 Expose the test
02:47 Develop the test
03:38 Evaluate the test
04:56 Expose the print
05:47 Dodge and burn the print
06:59 Develop the print

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