Photographers, i have a few questions?

Question

1. What are the steps used to mount a photograph on a board (tool used as well as time)?

2. What effects the amount of exposure that exposes the photographic paper? (is it film speed and shutter speed)?

3. What is a reversal?

4. Why is it impoartant to develop every print for 2 min.?

thanks!

Answer 1

Me thinks you need to do your own homework!  

Answer 2

2)  The exposure time in the darkroom has to do with whether or not the negative is perfectly exposed.  If you over exposed the negative, the negative will be dense, so you will need not only a longer exposure to expose the paper properly, you will have to burn in the highlights, which will take much more time (and convince you how important getting the exposure right in the camera to avoid further problems in the darkroom)

4)  Just as in film development, the 2 minute development time when developing fiber based paper assures that the full range of the image is fully developed.  Pulling the print too quickly (because the paper was over exposed) results in a flat print.

3) Reversal film is called a transparency.  35 mm transparencies are sometimes called "slides".

1) There are two ways to mount your photos.  One is using dry mount tissue and a dry mount press.  The other is to cut a matte board (using a dexter matte cutter or a C&H matte cutter) to the size of your print and attach it using archival photo corners and then attach another matte board behind it for support. (your instructor can give you more detailed specifics for this kind of archival mount)