Dark Room Processing! (Black and White).

For more of my experimentation for this project (and for future reference), I decided to join in on a Dark Room processing and printing induction.
I have the color workshop tomorrow actually.

To begin with, I`ve never actually used an analogue camera; one of those very old and chunky ones that you have to keep on pulling a lever on to wind the film around. Anyways, a very weird and awkward camera to use and I seriously don`t want to use that again.
Because I knew how bad I was going to be at taking pictures on the analogue camera, I also bought a small disposable camera from boots which took pictures in Black and White.

All I had to do with that was crack it open and use the film from inside.

The whole process takes a whole day to work on.
We started at 10am last Tuesday. (I`m only just getting round to writing about it).
 Aswell as never actually using an Analogue camera before, I`d never actually been into a dark room since we never had them at my school or at my sixth form; to be honest I just thought it would be something that didn`t really appeal to me.

At 10am, we used the light tight tanks and began to get our films ready for processing.
Me and my friend Mel where obviously the last two people to come out of our small preparation rooms; not because we where messing around, but because we both just couldn`t find our films and had no idea as to what we where doing in the dark.

When it came to cracking open our disposable cameras aswell... Parts flew everywhere, Mel electrocuted herself a few times on the battery that was inside and we dropped the film god knows how many times.

Now, I can`t actually remember the whole process behind developing these black and white photographs; all I know is that it`s completely different from the Color processing, which I am actually doing all day tomorrow.

I wouldn`t be able to excplain the process and then have readers go off and do it anyway, because you genuinly need all of the professional equipment and the dark rooms, the red lights, the light tight tanks and the chutes that you through the developed images down.
All I can say is that the whole processing part takes all morning, we where there about 10am till 1pm and then when the films where drying out we had lunch, came back at 2pm and then began to print the images.

I would happily do the Black and White Image again, they come out looking very dramatic and on some of them, confusing.

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