Visitors want to stay in the darkroom because it is the most romantic room they will stand in all week. I let them, for ten minutes, then I send them upstairs. Romance fogs paper.
What the lamp forgets is green, and anything subtle in a face. I judge faces in white light, upstairs, the next day. The night is for contrast and for not rushing the wash.
The safelight is not the picture. It is the room the picture is born in.
If you book a print consult, this is the room you see. Shoes off if it’s been raining. The floor is old tile and it shows every drop.