I developed a roll of film for the first time on the 30th of November and it was exhilarating. So much so that I’d like to develop about a thousand more rolls, at least, in my lifetime and then some. My next go at it will be done with a monobath – which as the name implies, is a single solution for developing film. It's quite nifty, especially if you consider that it is replacing the use of a developer, stop bath, and fixer in the developing process.
Post developing, I sent my negatives out to my film lab of choice, for scanning. This is my first 120 roll of Kodak’s Tri-X film which is loved by one of my favourite photographers, Andre D Wagner. A feature of this film that I enjoy in work that I’ve seen it used for (typically street photos or documentary-style photos) but have been a bit wary of for my own photographs is the high contrast. Being a lover of Ilford’s HP5, a medium contrast black and white film, the light-to-dark contrast ratio of the Tri-X seemed like too much of a step up for me to play with, but I love how this roll turned out. I have taken a lot of colour photos at the Brighton Pier, but I think a few of these black and white ones have almost upstaged them.
P.S. I'm not at all opposed to editing film photos but this set of photos has not been edited.
