Well, it has to be said I made a real boo boo here!! As mentioned in a previous post, I've bought all the ingredients for an at home film developing kit. I thought I had successfully developed my first roll, but when I took it to the darkroom to print up a contact sheet, I noticed a mottling affect all over the contact sheet and a print. Each and every image on the contact sheet had the same effect. I had a look at the negatives and its on them too.
I took the roll of negatives and prints into Gunn's to get an expert opinion on the matter and they seemed to think that the mottling was ON the negatives as opposed to be IN which suggested that perhaps I cut and put them into the negative sleeves too early? On reflective, this could be the case, though I thought they were dry.
So, a little skeptical and nervous to say the least, I went ahead and developed my second roll of film and as I was working my way through the fixing stage, I had another look online at the Ilford Rapid Fixer Fact sheet - I realised that 1+9 ratio versus 1+4 ratio is not a choice I could make - it was in fact - the paper versus film ratio for fixing and I'd chosen the wrong one. So, my mottled images could have been a combination of both - not fixed properly and / or not dried properly. Unfortunately, I realised this too late for the second roll of film. So, I decided to fix the images for a little longer to make sure. I'm not sure if this was the right approach - but its was the approach that I took - the images look alright, but I won't know for sure until the printing stage.
I'm off not for a third attempt - third time lucky - right!! And its all a learning experience, I now know to read the bottle and in my case, read it twice (at least) :)
I took the roll of negatives and prints into Gunn's to get an expert opinion on the matter and they seemed to think that the mottling was ON the negatives as opposed to be IN which suggested that perhaps I cut and put them into the negative sleeves too early? On reflective, this could be the case, though I thought they were dry.
So, a little skeptical and nervous to say the least, I went ahead and developed my second roll of film and as I was working my way through the fixing stage, I had another look online at the Ilford Rapid Fixer Fact sheet - I realised that 1+9 ratio versus 1+4 ratio is not a choice I could make - it was in fact - the paper versus film ratio for fixing and I'd chosen the wrong one. So, my mottled images could have been a combination of both - not fixed properly and / or not dried properly. Unfortunately, I realised this too late for the second roll of film. So, I decided to fix the images for a little longer to make sure. I'm not sure if this was the right approach - but its was the approach that I took - the images look alright, but I won't know for sure until the printing stage.
I'm off not for a third attempt - third time lucky - right!! And its all a learning experience, I now know to read the bottle and in my case, read it twice (at least) :)
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