My split grade printing practice in the darkroom.

  This is my first test strip.

   I tested this on F8 Filter 0 and strips of 5-25 seconds.

  The reason  did this was to get the correct exposure   time for the highlighted area's in the image.

I decided I wanted the highlights to be exposed for 15 seconds on filter 0.

                                                              

This was to find out what time Iwanted the darker area's of the image to be. I knew Iwanted the highlights to be exposed for 15 seconds so firstly Iexposed it on filter 0 for that amount of time.

The next step was to figure out what amount of time the darker area's needed so Idid test strips of 10-40 seconds on filter 5.













This image was exposed for 15 seconds on filter 0 to bring out the highlights and 10-40 seconds test strips on filter 5 to determine the exposure time for the darker area's.

Ok so I thought that 15 seconds for the darker area's was a  

good exposure time so I exposed for 15 seconds on filter 5  for that and 15 seconds on filter 0 for the highlighted area's.

Here you can see that the highlights are quite bright and the darker area's are nice and dark and the greys are in there too.

This gives a good even tone of contrast.