Sunday 21 August 2011

Developing Black And White Film 2nd attempt

My Nephew

Talacre Beach Lighthouse

Black and White neg scanned as colour neg

Fisheye Lomography image using remote flash for alternative light source




I think I'm getting to like waking up on Sunday mornings and hitting the car boot sales ! Not very cool really but I don't care . Got myself an Epson 3490 scanner for £5 today so now I don't have to go in early to work to scan my negs ( well 35mm negs anyway )


This is the 2nd time I have ever developed my own film . Cue sweating worse than a sauna under 3 layers of duvet because the sun was shining through the blinds when I was trying to transfer the film to the developing tank  ( 2 of them with a winter rating tog )


I would like the images to be sharper and less muddy but this is definitely a steep learning curve and I am very much enjoying it ( Trying to forget about feeding the film onto the reel in the dark, it probably shouldn't take half an hour and quite so much cursing and swearing ), I'll try and cut that down next time ....... Well I suppose the quicker I get the film on the reel the less swearing will be needed


Rather than just develop for developing sake I have tried to capture some certainly not award winning but  I hope semi interesting images