Busy in the Darkroom

Yesterday afternoon was quite fun developing black and white. Because the majority of the time I expose my 400 TMAX film at the same shutter speed setting makes it fairly easy to come up with the same developing settings in the darkroom. Needless to say I was on a roll printing out some of my past favorites that I've never done anything with. Before I had my own darkroom, I had another lab develop the film for me, and then scan the film and put the images on a CD. I can appreciate the work that went into that process. At first I thought $10 was rip off, but I take that all back!

I have probably enough processed film to last me the rest of my life - in other words I wouldn't have to go out again. But we know that won't happen. I have so much that it would take months to go thru - some that I thought were never that good
but when in reality they were bad scans (since I was looking at the finished product and not the negatives). So, I was going thru alot of my old stuff yesterday. There was one that a gallery owner wanted me to do, but I could never get a good print from a scan someone else did. Although if I remember correctly I did my own scan and tried again, but maybe I was having an 'off' day, because it came out superb!

I also spent some time creating my own processing times for the fiberbase paper. I'll be using Ilford Multi-grade IV fiber paper. I've only been developing 8x10s on RC paper for now. But I think I have that down now - I didn't want to waste my fiber paper! Moving up to an 11x14 will be fun!