Making A Black And White Film!

Materials:

• Timers
• Drying Cabinets
• Tongs Or Spatula
• Enlargers 
• Focusing Aids  
• Safelights        

  2.) The Chemicals:

Photographic Fixer

Stop Bath

Acetic Acid

Citric Acid

You can get your chemicals here..

(www.bhphotovideo.com).

3.)First you take the temperature when you place the exposed print paper in the developer tray for one or two minutes and once that's done take it out of the developer tray. Next you put the stop bath on the film and agitate for 15 seconds or  thirty second it depends. Next you dump that out and you put the fixer in it and you agitate it for two minutes and then you let it sit for two minutes. After all that you place it in wash from two to five minutes. Then when its done you put it in the drying cabinet.

 

 

Vocabulary:

1. Emulsion-  A composition sensitive to some or all of the actinic rays of light, consisting of one or more ofthe silver halides suspended in gelatin, applied in a thin layer to one surface of a film or the like.

2.Aperture- Also called aperture stop . Optics . an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of lightthat can enter an optical instrument.

3.Masking easel- A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.

4.Exposure- The total amount of light received by a photosensitive surface or an area of such a surface,expressed as the product of the degree of illumination and the period of illumination.

5. Safe Light- A darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films,printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.

6.Dodging- To shade (an area of a print) from exposure for a period, while exposing the remainder of the print in order to lighten or eliminate the area (sometimes fol. by out ).

7.Burning- To expose (one part of an image) to more light by masking the other parts in order to darken and give greater detail to the unmasked area. Also, print in.