Photography
Related: About this forumHow to develop film with beer.
It seems to give a special look to the images.
http://www.digitalrev.com/article/how-to-develop-film-with-beer
Can't post the images.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)My teenage artsy-fartsy niece is into photography. She was expressing an interest in film photography (image that) and I dug out my film camera outfit. I was always the family photographer and there are some nature shots I am really proud. But I noticed that I was in none of the shots and instead of enjoying our vacations I was recording it. So the cameras were relegated to the closet.
Both bodies and lenses were in great shape. I installed new batteries and bought her some 400 speed film which was all I could find. Her teacher has been helping her and she has gotten over the intimidation of working with film. I sent her the link to "One Year With Film Only." I think she will learn a lot from it.
TexasProgresive
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alfredo
(60,071 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)And I like a challenge. I went to his page and viewed each of the images. I'm not sure if that made a difference. The links are really long and I thought it odd that part of them is printed under each image when viewed at DU.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)Virtual Burlesque
(132 posts)Since the Smena 8M was made in the Soviet Union, perhaps you should have developed the film in vodka.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Or just about anywhere else. Good combo, good times!
alfredo
(60,071 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)that really does qualify as alcohol abuse.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)At least give someone else the car keys before you do.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)A friend and I were meeting two women for a night out. When one came down the stairs she looked like a skeleton in my acid/beer altered mind. I immediately puked. I'm not one of those discreet barfers, I'm a window rattler. So much for making a good first impression.
hunter
(38,311 posts)As a kid I developed my own film and made my own prints, without gloves of course. Hell, even high schools and college darkrooms used some of the badder darkroom chemicals. I wish I knew then what I know now. (Metol is evil! Poison Ivy evil!)
These days I use ascorbic acid (vitamin C) developers. That's what makes this beer recepie work.
jmowreader
(50,556 posts)I cannot stand metol either. I'm not allergic to it (which is a rare thing to say), but the shit will not dissolve if the concentration of sodium sulfite is "too high" - which basically means if there's any at all in the water when you add the metol, you're screwed.
Phenidone, OTOH, is the stuff you want to use: it's more potent of a reducing agent than Metol is and it doesn't cause contact dermatitis. Its only problem is it won't give you any contrast unless you put hydroquinone in the developer. (In the 1970s and 1980s there was a fad of shooting on microfilm...H&W Control film was panchromatic Agfa Copex Rapid, and Technical Pan was panchromatic Eastman microfilm. The only way they could get the contrast of those films down to something reasonable was to use a phenidone developer with just a tiny amount of hydroquinone in it.)
Now...how this "Guinness developer" and also the "coffee developer" some people use works: Serious darkroom geeks know there are three major b&w developing agents: metol, phenidone and hydroquinone. Hydroquinone is a "phenolic" compound - a hydroxyl group bonded to an aromatic hydrocarbon. There are also phenols in Guinness, coffee and wine - so if someone wanted to brew up a batch of Boxwineinol developer, it'd probably work. Now for the big problem with this shit: Phenolic agents give you a ton of contrast and they build heavy grain. Without a low-contrast agent (yup, phenidone) in your Guinness to mitigate the phenol, your pictures are going to come out looking like you shot on lith film, like you see here. It might be interesting to add 0.3 gram of phenidone and 15 grams sodium sulfite to a pint of well-shaken Guinness and do a little stand development.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)It differs from how we did it back in the sixties. They use soap, we didn't.
I never used the bag, I had a totally dark closet. It also helps to have one sacrificial roll of film for practicing using the reel.
jmowreader
(50,556 posts)Especially since I shoot 120. 120 film is a lot thinner than 35mm film and it flops over more while you're putting it on reels.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)I left a bit of the leader outside so I didn't have to open the cassette. That made loading the reel much easier.
Initech
(100,065 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)struggle4progress
(118,281 posts)Out of developer? No problem! Just go buy some Guinness, washing soda, and vitamin C; mix them; and drop in your videocam!
I found I didn't need a stop-bath: the videocam stopped working immediately!
alfredo
(60,071 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Although I understand a good hefeweizen can be enjoyable while processing your images in Photoshop or Lightroom.