Darkroom Introduction

An introductory guide to black and white printing skills. Want to make the most of out your photographs? There's nothing quite like the pleasure and stunning images to be gained from making your own prints!

Course synopsis: Darkroom Introduction

Darkroom Introduction, as its name suggests, is an introduction to black and white darkroom printing and is ideal for both beginners and those wishing to refresh their previous darkroom printing knowledge. Printing your own photographs is great fun and it is truly exciting to play around in the darkroom and watch your photographs appear like magic. Learn how to produce a perfect print from your negatives, rather than sending them off to the mini-lab! In this course you will learn all the basic elements of darkroom printing, how to use the darkroom safely, and you will gain all the darkroom skills needed to work in the darkroom independently.

Aim of the course: Darkroom Introduction

By the end of the course you will be able to print photographic prints from a negative and be able to use the darkroom by yourself.

Progression Routes

Darkroom Introduction is also part of our introduction to photography courses. Please see our Photography Course planner for more details. You may also wish to go on to learn how to make the most out of your photographs by learning to use your cameras manual controls on our Camera Introduction or learn how to develop your own film with our Film Processing workshop. This introductory photography workshop will provide you with the darkroom skills necessary to progress to our Developing Photography skills Level 2 darkroom lessons such as Darkroom Techniques.

You may also be interested in these other courses:

• Darkroom Basics
• Basic Photography
• Creative Photography

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