Darkroom Print Guide
Darkroom Print Guide
What are darkroom prints and how do they differ from digital prints?
Darkroom prints are created from the negatives of film images. Instead of sending images off to a printer, a darkroom print is created very similarly to a film negative. The light from an enlarger (pictured at the side) hits light sensitive paper and this paper then put into a series of chemical baths to make the image appear on it. It’s one of my favourite things to watch happen.
Want to know more about it? I have a video below where I talk you through the whole process of creating a darkroom print.
Colour prints may differ slightly to the images in your gallery. When I scan in my images as digital files, I make tweaks and adjustments to the colour. I usually like an undertone of green in the shadows so I pull this colour through in the edit. When printing through an enlarger, there are limits to the adjustments that can be made. This might mean your colour prints might slightly more magenta, cyan or yellow than your digital versions.
Paper size choices
Small Prints
These small prints are perfect for framing on walls and tables and for sending as gifts to friends and family.
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£25 per individual print
Medium Size Prints
These medium size prints are perfect for framing on walls and tables, and for sending as gifts to friends and family.
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£35 per individual print
Large Prints
Large prints are perfect for framing on walls. If you are looking for a larger print (16x20 inches) please let me know.
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£50 per individual print
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Know you only want small prints? Bulk buy 5×7 prints with a small discount.
£400 per 20 prints / £510 per 30 prints
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Know you only want medium prints? Bulk buy 8×10 prints with a small discount.
£165 per 5 prints / £300 per 10 prints
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Perfect for if you wish to have a variety of sizes to frame and keep on display around your home.
8 5×7 prints
4 8×10 prints
1 12×16 print
£340
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Perfect for when you want to gift images to your friends and family.
Includes:
20 5×7 prints
10 8×10
£600
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Perfect for when you want some personal prints as well as prints to share with friends and family. Small prints and 8×10s are ideal for sharing while the 12×16 and is ideal for framing for your own home.
Includes:
30 5×7 prints
10 8×10 prints
1 12×16 prints
£785
Bundles
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Black and white: Glossy or matte
Colour paper only comes available as glossy
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For most of the images in your galleries, I have cropped out the borders of the negatives. You can, however, choose to have those borders in your prints if you so wish. You can choose to have all four borders, or two borders (either the short or long edge).
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If you wish to have your prints with you before a certain date please let me know and I will do my best to accommodate.
£60
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Want to experience making prints yourself by hand? Once you’ve put in your order for prints, let me know you’d like to join me and we can book in a date for you to help me create your prints. If you’ve ordered lots of prints, it will likely take me a couple of sessions in the darkroom to create all of them so you’re welcome to join me for the first of these sessions.
£15
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A contact sheet is a print of multiple strips of negatives, typically with annotations about which negatives are to be chosen to scan or print. They can be a really fun addition to have on your walls. See below for an example of a contact sheet.
Printed on 8×10 paper.
Choose to have your contact sheet with or without my own annotations.
£15 per contact sheet.
Customisations & Add Ons
Learn more about the darkroom and the prints
about the darkroom and how darkroom prints are created
Explore the different print sizes and customisations
Next Steps
In the email I sent to you with the link to my prints and album store, there will also have been a link to a Favourite album in your gallery. This section is filled with the images that are able to be printed in the darkroom. While this is not all of the film images in your galleries, it is the selection that I believe will work best for darkroom printing.
Once you’ve decided which images you’d like printed you can let me know in one of two ways.
Create a favourites album of your own in your gallery and sent this across to me detailing any customisations and if you want any of the images made into multiple prints. If doing this option please split the galleries according to print sizes, so for example you’d send across one Favourite album for your 5x7 prints and one Favourite album for your 8x10 prints.
Write everything down in an email: what you’d like to choose, which images you’d like printed according to their file name, the quantity and the sizes along with any customisations. For example:
“I’d like:
3 5x7 images:
1 x Charlotte Dormoy 1
2x Charlotte Dormoy 2
2 8x10 images:
2x Charlotte Dormoy 1
I’d like the black and whites in a glossy finish. I’d like a bit of film border on the long edge of the 5x7s but no film border on the 8x10s.”
Once you’d let me know what you’d like I will send you over an invoice and get started with them right away. I’ll keep you updated with the progress of print creation. If you’ve ordered multiple prints it may be that it takes a handful of sessions in the darkroom to create these.
I’m so excited to turn the negatives we took on your day into darkroom prints!