First Attempt at Film development.
Stage 1. Shooting and developing.
Firstly I went around Leeds city center with a film camera and black and white film, then I came back to college and loaded the film into a spool and tank whilst in a dark bag to avoid exposing the film.
Once the film was safely in the tank, I took out the tank and mixed 25 ml of developer and 25 ml of 30 degree water. I added the mixture to the tank and left it to develop for 15 minuets.
After the 15 minuets was up i got rid of the developing mixture and filled the with 25ml of Fix and left it for 5 minuets.
Afterwards i poured the fix back into the tub and washed my film with warm water and soap and shook the soap to clean the film for about 5 minuets then rinsed it out with warm water then emptied it completely and removed the film and left it to dry for 20 minuets.
During this process i had to make sure the chemicals didn't touch my clothes else i would of ended up bleaching my clothes.
Negs and teststrip 1.When my negatives were dry I went into the darkroom and placed my negatives on light sensitive paper so i had to make sure i didn't use my phone or switch the enlarger one with out the safety light or i would expose the paper and it would be useless, so i placed the negatives on top made sure they were aligned properly using the safety light then i switched the light off and moved the safety and then ran my enlarger for 5 and half seconds.
to develop the image i used a similar process to my negatives, I placed the image in developer for 5 minuets, then moved it into stop for another minuet and then placed it in fix for 10 minuets, then placed the image down the shoot to rinse, then I left the image to dry.
After making my contact sheet i ripped up some of the light sensitive paper whilst in the darkroom, I chose my shot i wanted to use, which was of a tree with a plastic bag in, i placed the negative in the negative holder of the enlarger i put my paper in the draw so it was out of the light so i could focus properly, once in focus i put the safety on and aligned my paper and ran my enlarger for 10 seconds but whilst doing this i covered parts of the paper with black paper to not expose them so i had different exposures for different amounts of time, again I went through the development process and they weren't dark enough so I did this process again, this time from 20 to 12 seconds then again went through development again, after this i decided that about 13 seconds was correct for my image.
Contact sheet and test 2.Stage 3. Final images.
For my final images I did 2 different styles with them, one had a border the other didn't, so for the one with out a border i set my image up as i needed to, then placed the paper down and exposed the enlarger for 13 seconds then developed my image again.
Final Image no border.For the image with the border I used a print board to hold it down using the tongs of the board i covered some edges of the paper so that they wouldn't expose and they'd stay white.
then went through the development process again.
Final image with border.I think my Images worked really well because they looked like reverse photograms and the bag was really detailed and the tree was totally flat and i think it just gave it a nice effect.
the hardest part about the film was that i struggled to get the negative on the spool whilst in the dark bag, but i got there eventually.
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