Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Processing Black and White photos

Black and White

Materials:
 Metal or plastic film tank  
 Three dark plastic containers to hold chemistry  
Graduates (used to measure chemicals)  
Darkroom timer    
Can opener  
A room that is light proof (not even a sliver of light should be visible). 
 Developer 
 Glacial Acetic Acid  
 Fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener is highly recommended)
 Hypo Eliminator


Define:
Contact Sheet: is a photographic image produced from film: sometimes from a film negative; sometimes from a film positive.
Agitation: putting into motion by shaking or stirring
Enlarge: photographic print that is larger than the negative it is printed from,
Developer: a chemical, often a mixture of metol and hydroquinone, which converts the latent silver halide Stop Bath: image in the exposed photograph material into reduced, opaque, black silver metal
is a chemical bath usually used in processing traditional black-and-white photograpgic films, plates, and paper used after the material has finished developing.
Fixer: a chemical that removes unexposed silver salts from photographic media and renders them insensitive to light.

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