Intro to B&W Printing

Instructor: Heather Palecek

Saturday, December 7th
12 pm - 4 pm

This is an immersive 4-hour workshop where you’ll learn the exciting (let’s say fun, too) process of making high quality black-and-white enlargements on traditional photo-sensitive paper in the darkroom.

Syllabi:

• Meet & Greet. Introductions. Goals of the class.

• Instructor gives darkroom tour and demonstrates how to use an enlarger; explains the chemistry trays and their functions. 

• Students return to the classroom and look at some film negatives:

  • Discussion of exposure, density, and contrast

  • How to choose contrast filters; where to start

  • Discussion on film cleaning and dust prevention

  • Instructor provides info about enlarging lenses and paper choices

  • Overview of how process works from setup to test strip to print

• Students return to the darkroom to set up their own enlarging stations.

• Instructor demonstrates how to make a test strip, develop and analyze the strip, and make a print.

• Students then work on their own negatives and prints for the duration of workshop with instructor input.

The Halide Project will supply all necessary chemistry and paper.

• Students are asked to bring black-and-white 35mm or 120 negatives for printing.

Workshop Withdrawal Policy

We recommend choosing workshops with care after reading our withdrawal policy. If you have questions about any of our workshops, please contact dale@thehalideproject.org 

Instructor bio:
Heather Palecek is an analogue photographer working in the mediums of pinhole photography, lumen printing, cyanotype, and mixed media cameraless photography. She uses these historical photography processes in experimental ways to collaborate with mother nature in her work. She has been working around the theme of relationships and connection for much of her artistic career; Many of her artistic pursuits explore the relationships humans have to mother nature and their impact on the environment. It is her goal as an artist to create artwork that makes people think about their own relationship with mother nature and inspire them to be more mindful.

Palecek has a degree in fine art education and photography from Montclair State University and has been a high school photography teacher in NJ since 2010. She teaches immersive workshops on alternative and historic photography processes and is the leader of the NJ Pinhole Club. Her award winning work has been exhibited locally and internationally. 

This workshop has been generously sponsored The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.