Digital Photography - Processing Your Film - Part II

The extra adventurous should buy home processing kits for each colour negative and color reversal movie, and also for black and white. You do no longer need to have a completely equipped darkroom to technique movie. Apart from the system in the kit all you want is a processing tank - these are available various sizes, depending on how many films you want to system without delay - and a mild-tight room or cabinet in which you could load the film into the tank. Once that is done, the relaxation of the method is accomplished in ordinary light, although of course you need to pass returned into the dark to make prints.

If a film is underexposed, for example if it is uprated, it wishes to accept a longer than ordinary improvement time. This is referred to as 'pushing'. Overexposed film is 'pulled' via being evolved for a shorter time than normal.

These techniques are not unusual, but they have to no longer be used where they may be prevented due to the fact both of them purpose a sure lack of photograph great: the tougher a movie has been driven or pulled, the extra the loss. There isn't any alternative for getting your exposures spot on.

Again, a expert laboratory will give you extensively better enlarged prints. You could be in a position to talk about how you want your picture cropped and positioned on the masking frame of the enlarger. If a transparency that is to be printed has a coloration forged you may ask for this to be corrected. You can even have precise regions of a negative or transparency shaded or printed up to darken or brighten them. This can be vital if there's a big discrepancy between the tones in highlighted regions and shadows.