Some of the shots from the 4th roll of B&W film I developed in connection with the B&W developing and printing class I'm attending.

This was from the 3rd roll of B&W film I develop over the weekend. As usual scanned the negs and this is my favorite from that roll. Can't wait to print this the traditional way inside the darkroom which will be the coming weekend.

To the 2nd roll

Just finish my second roll of B&W film and last weekend was able to develop it and did the contact prints. Was not satisfy with the outcome of the contact prints the first one i did this onecame out a little bit gray scale actually I have to do it twice. My trainer said maybe its the exposure time in the enlarger but he told me we can fix it during the printing process. To satisfy myself and to see the outcome of my shots, I scan the negs the next day. Upon reviewing it my computer screen was fairly satisfied with the outcome well these are my chosen shots from the roll were I did a little tweaking in Photoshop.

And I would like to thank my models for gamely posing in front of my Camera.

Dark Room Experience

I'm into Photography for quite sometime now (9 years ) from my first point and shoot to my DSLR. I've shot different mediums. Print Film, Slides, Black and White, now Digital. But I never set foot in a Dark room until recently.
Our Camera club offers a Black and White developing and printing course yearly so I took advantage of this and enrolled in this class. My main reason of enrolling is not to learn to shoot in B&W but to learn how to develop my own pics. My usual workflow in shooting Black and White, after I'm done with the rolls of film is I drop it off to my favorite custom lab to have it developed then Scan to Digital File then do some tweaking on the computer before printing it or posting it on the web.
But now I will do the developing itself in the dark room well after some lecture in the procedure of developing your film we do it now real time. The challenging part of this process is placing your exposed film on the developing reel done in complete darkness. Then we mix the chemicals (Developer,Stopbath and Fixer) making sure that we got the correct mixture and temperature. Then the developing process is done. After we developed the film its time to do some contact printing so we can choose which we will print to submit as our project. Doing contact print is fun as I experienced to have your hand wet with chemicals and the joy you feel when you see the prints you made. I posted a scan copy of the contact prints I've done.
Can't wait till next week when we do some strip testing and do our final print.