{"id":155,"date":"2006-06-13T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/13\/my-very-first-print\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:08:39","slug":"my-very-first-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/my-very-first-print\/","title":{"rendered":"My very first print :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, since I used only a 6&#215;6 on the trip to Italy, I have now a ,,tiny&#8221; problem of getting to see the photos I took \ud83d\ude00 I decided to try contact-printing them, and yestarday I&#8217;ve set a guerilla-darkroom up.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a plastic ice-cream box for the developer tray<\/li>\n<li>two glass jars &#8212; stop bath and fixer<\/li>\n<li>I had no paper developer, so I used Rodinal<\/li>\n<li>I had no stop bath, so I have diluted some citric acid and crossed my fingers<\/li>\n<li>I had no copying frame, so I glued a small sheet of foam rubber onto some board and got a piece of thick glass frosted on one side to press this sandwich flat<\/li>\n<li>I had no enlarger and no timer, so I counted the time out aloud and used a bare bulb of my vanity mirror lamp<\/li>\n<li>I used plastic clips, such meant for hanging laundry, to move paper around my ,,trays&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I used a small neon light in a red cap as my safelight \ud83d\ude42 Wasn&#8217;t really providing any usable light, but halped me to keep oriented in the darkness<\/li>\n<li>and last, but not least, my paper has still ,,made in DDR&#8221; stamps on the pack&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the very first print I&#8217;ve managed to make:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biasedlogic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/myfirstcontactprint.jpg\" alt=\"myfirstcontactprint.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t complain too much, the scanner used was the one built into my office photocopier, it wasn&#8217;t ever meant to scan photos \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, since I used only a 6&#215;6 on the trip to Italy, I have now a ,,tiny&#8221; problem of getting to see the photos I took \ud83d\ude00 I decided to try contact-printing them, and yestarday I&#8217;ve set a guerilla-darkroom up. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/my-very-first-print\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}