First attempt at enlarging my street photography.

Fail

This first attempt was literally a complete fail. At first my contact prints came out really well but this was because it was only the light i needed. I didn't need to use the lense in the enlarger to project any image. So at this point as far as i knew the images i would produce would be fine. So then i went on to enlarge some images. The first few came out o looking like i had only focused on one thing in the image so the rest was blurry and disfigured and this wasn't what i wanted to achieve at all, so i chose a different film to enlarge from and then i did a few more these all came out exactly the same. After a while of thinking my shoots were all bad and i couldn't use them i decided to be safe i'd use someone elses enlarger with their lense and see if it came out any clearer. It did and by this point it was too late in the day to do anymore as i needed to catch a train so not only did i waste a hell of a lot of paper enlarging these failed attempts, i also wasted a full day's worth of enlarging. Fair to say i was pretty chewed about this. 

These are the results of that failed day that i have scanned into my iMac. 

 This image doesn't look that bad compared to some of the shots i have but it still is no where near as sharp as i would have liked it too be. 

This was one of the ones i was really unhappy with. As you can you see the edges of this print are really blurred and distorted. The exposure if exactly how i would have had it, the only issue was the fact the lense blurred it. 

 This image was not printed on that day this is a more recent print that i had done at the beginning of this week but as it was a 'failed' print i thought i'd include it. This picture is really clear and sharp the only issue was it was exposed for too long and it really dark. 

 Back to the first failed printing day. This isn't that bad of a photo really it just wasn't exposed for long enough i would have preferred it darker with more contrast. There is also a bit of a blur in the middle of the photo.

 This was one of the prints that i was also really unhappy with. I think this would have been a really good shot if it has come out okay. There is a really bad blur on the left hand side of the image. But one thing i did like in this photo was the contrast. 

Again another blurred image. This is a shot taken from my bedroom window so i wasn't sure whether these would even work that well or not being so far away from the subject of my images, However the shot did turn out okay, well better than the other images. I just looks like the traffic is moving in this shot really due to the blurred edges from the lense.

This surprisingly is a good shot from the failed day. There isn't really any blurring from the lense although it isn't as sharp as i wanted it to be. The only really thing wrong is that i don't like the exposuure i would say it could have done with 5 more seconds.

Although this first attempt at printing went wrong i have recently done a few more and they have gone far better than these ones and i will be posting those shots tomorrow and others days as i do them.