2 posts tagged “film”
Yesterday, I nearly blew a roll of film in developing. I was quite upset when, after developing, i got this:
Pretty much every shot on the roll had something similar going on with it. I did a bunch of digging around online to try and figure out what had gone wrong with my developing, what I had messed up, and how i could prevent it from happening in the future.
Luckily, i found something. It turns out what I was seeing was a result of either a) not using fixer long enough or b) bad fixer - but more importantly, it could be, no pun intended, fixed by re-immersing the film in fixer for another 5-10 minutes.
I mixed up a new batch of fixer, and re-fixed the film, which now gives me this:
A much, much better result.
Some of the film from this batch still has problems, There's some bizarre white spots on some of the scans, that I think might be an issue with the scanner, or possibly dirt on the film. I also had a lot of problems getting the film loaded up - and wouldn't be surprised if some of my remaining issues with the film are the result of that.
For another comparison, here's what the banana shot looked like on first develop/scan last night:
Today over lunch, I think i should run/bike up to looking glass and buy a new set of developer chemicals and also see about getting myself a changing bag - reduce the risk of fogging, and also, hopefully, reduce the risk of problems while loading film reels that lead to me destroying the film in other ways.
This is a 'scan' of one of the photos that I developed earlier tonight. Alas, my scanner bites dust in all the bad ways. So instead, I did a dirty thing. I put the negatives on my lighttable, set up the canon 5d with my macro lens on a tripod, pointed directly at said light table - and then proceeded to position the negatives, take a shot, lather, rinse repeat.
The full set of initial 'scans', with both the original shot and then the inverted/cropped/adjusted photo are in my flickr set posneg.(This post also serves as a test of posting from flickr!)
