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Making Contact Prints was created as part of Photograph - online learning and teaching photography resources. This text accompanies the Making Contact Prints Online Resource. In an age of digital, the Photograph online resources concentrate upon elemental and experimental ways of making images with light. While many of the ideas can be used just as easily with digital cameras (such as snapshot and narrative), other modules focus on lower tech methods which remind us of the origins of photography (such as making sun pictures and building a camera obscura. These resources concern themselves with making black and white images, and with tone, contrast, shadow and light. Other resources in this series: Introduction to the AccessArt Photograph Resource Contact Prints Any photograms (or indeed any photograph) can be tonally reversed using contact printing. Contact Printing Methodology You will need:
Method: 1. Place a sheet of paper on the bench 2. Put the photograph or photogram face down on the photographic paper, so the emulsion side of both pieces of photographic paper are in direct contact with each other. 3. Place the glass over the two to keep the photogram in direct contact with the unexposed paper. 4. If you want to save paper make a test strip to allow you to find the optimum exposure time. (To find out how to do this see the section entitled ‘Test Strips’ .) Otherwise, expose your image for anything up to 20 seconds. 5. Place the photographic paper in the developer, stop bath and fix trays, in that order, for the time specified on the manufacturer’s recommendations. 6. Wash the print thoroughly for up to 20 minutes and allow to dry. Other resources in this series: Introduction to the AccessArt Photograph Resource |
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