Developing a roll of 120 film at home in my kitchen (series of the images taken during the process).
Hello, my friends.
A holiday is already ruling the order of what I'm doing these days. And all that I'm successfully trying to do is having fun and thinking less about my job, even I'm staying connected to my office network also these holiday's days. And the fun is about meeting with family and with my friends, playing guitar, and of course, photography walks to some interesting places as I did today at 5 AM when I find myself already sitting in my car and driving to Jerusalem direction. But this will be a different story with the few sets of photographs I photographed there.
And today I managed to find the time for the film developing process. I documented the whole process and will show you the timeline of the film developing with the pictures I photographed.
This is the final image of the chemical process when I rinse all the remains of the chemicals with the photo flo wetting agent.
Here the start and the roll of the Ilford HP5 medium format film is already inside the Patterson tank.
Water, developer, and fixer should be the same temperature - 20C in my case, and these hot days it's not easy to hold them all together already prepared and stuck at 20C. Probably I need a small refrigerator for wine with temperature control, so this should make the process more simple.
I marked the FIXer tank with the BLACK masking tape to prevent chemicals confusion (happened to me twice or three). Why blake?
Well, Because the developer already got it's RED :-)
I use the regular tap water instead of the proper stopper. Just 20C as all other components.
And here is the final product. Still wet and not too understanding, but you already can see the negatives. I'm doing this procedure of the home film developing process already 8 or 9 years, but my heart is still beating like crazy every time when I'm opening the tank to take a peek at the result.
This time I developed the ilford HP5 ISO 400 film that I exposed with my lovely and heavy Hasselblad 500cm fully manual 45 years old camera.
And here is one of the frames which I exposed with this camera some time ago. It was the same ilford HP5 as I developed today.
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Woah! Fantastic insight into your process!!!! Viva La Analogue!!!
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thank you :-)
This is super cool to see a little behind the scenes!
Love how you admit about the heart pumping in anticipation… that’s surely the true sign that you care deeply about your work.
I get that feeling too after a shoot… the nerves of watching it back and hope it’s as good as you remember/wanted it to be during filming 😬
you're right and there are so many different components that can affect the whole process, that this simple component like temperature that i can control I'm trying to keep accurately.
as well as to keep all the utensils clean and to not mix the developer and fixer utensils during preparation as well :-)
thank you for taking a look and for the understanding and for the sharing of the feelings :-)
Hey, nice! I've been looking at this contraption to possibly begin my own home developing - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086WKDRL6/?coliid=I3P06RMOTIMB98&colid=CCSEOXDTK5ZH&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Do you have an enlarger as well? I'm curious how you scan the pictures.
Good luck with this.
i still have no enlarger, just developing film and scanning this, but really dreaming to do the real dark room and to have some free time for this as well :-))))