After the shoot, first thing to do process the film and make a contact sheet. Then I am able to pick which image I think is best at showing the story of this fashion textiles student.
There were a few that I wanted to print, some I drew crops on and others I dismissed straight away. I eventually chose one that initially I labelled with a question mark. In my opinion this one had everything in it that I wanted and basically told the story of how the student got from her ideas in the sketchbooks to a finished piece.
After selecting the image that I wanted to print it was time to start on the test strips, the exposure time for the print was 17seconds at grade 2. This test strip looked very flat or dense and I wanted to add some more contrast, I added in some grade 0 at 2seconds and grade 5 at 3seconds. The grade 0 is mainly used as the base as it has the lowest effect on the contrast, if you didn't add anything else the print would be very gray with very little tonal difference. The grade 5 hits blacks and the whites basically making them one or the other, this causes quite a lot of contrast.
The test strip on the right is quite close to how I want it, the exposure is still 17seconds but I have added the grade 0 and the grade 5 which has given the strip more contrast, you are still able to see a lot of the detail within all of the materials in the image too. I added just a few more seconds of grade 5 to the last test strip on the left which gave me the contrast that I wanted and also left enough detail in the blacks.
My final print of Hannah, with a small narrative going on in the image, which is what I wanted to show. I did use the same lighting from my diagram from the earlier body post, this was the butterfly lighting set up. This set up gives the sitter a little shadow under the nose, it is also one of the most flattering set ups that can be used when shooting female models.
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