Before I made my picture, I had to clean my negatives because they had water spots. I dipped them in a photo cleaner solution and then used special photo wipes to clean the spots off.
The negatives were loaded into the enlarger on a little thing kind of like a slide and you could see the picture on the bottom.
On the side of the enlarger there is a round focuser that focuses the image. You turn it until you think its focused right. When you think it's right you have to use this magnifying glass and place it directly under the light so that it reflects into it to make sure it's perfect. You want to see little grains.
I put a strip of photo paper under the enlarger and set the timer for the lighting at different times so when I was done I had different exposures on my test strip.
I picked the exposure I thought was best and then did everything over again but on the full photo sheet and made my final picture. I ran it through the chemicals for the required times and then let it dry.
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