Making a Test Strip
Properly executed test strips are the key to good prints. Test strips are used to determine exposure time, contrast adjustments, and processing time.
Test strip
Method of calculating exposure in photographic printing. A range of exposures are given to a strip of paper, from part of the image, this helps judge the correct exposure for the final print.
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Test strip. One of a series of test exposures on a piece of printing paper, then processed to see which gives the most satisfactory result.
Test strip
A strip of printing paper that is given a series of incremental exposure times ( such as 3, 6, 9, 12 seconds ) in order to determine the ideal base exposure time.
Test strip - trial and error method of calculating exposure in photographic printing. A number of exposures are given to a strip of emulsion, over important areas of the image to help judge the correct exposure in the final print.
Because your estimate may be incorrect, a logical procedure is to expose a test strip in four sections. To make the actual test strip, you must do the following: 1.
If you want you can make a test strip much like making a test strip for a normal print but using an exposed print as you have just done. This would allow you to work out the time your paper can be exposed before fogging will occur.
Miss the test strips of your darkroom days? Sick of making piles of prints just to get the right skin tone or contrast?
Traditional darkroom workers hastened the testing process by using a test strip.
Prints that are inadequately fixed will show stains when they dry. Test strips should be given 10s and full prints should be given one minute. Anything you wish to save at the end of your printing should be given one more minute in fresh fixer.
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Flash compensation: none
Flash 2: at right on SU-4
Exposure: 1/60 sec, f/4
Result: It simulates studio lighting at 45° from each side at front. IMO the most evenly distributed soft lighting of the whole test strips.
just gone through the stage of achieving monitor calibration, but am still being frustrated with the fine tuning of printer output for the variety of papers I like using. Nearly like going back to my darkroom days in printing a series of test strips ...
 See also: Print, Photograph, Exposure, Photography, Light
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