Friday, June 17, 2005
today, for the first time, i processed film in the dark room. how cool can it be! in the photo studio, we were first taught how to remove the film strip from the casing and put it onto the reel. then we had to go next door to the dark room to wind the film strip out and then put it into the tank. the adding of chemicals consosts of five steps. the developer, the stop bath, fixer, hypo clear, and lastly, photo flo. the fixer smells like shit but thank God i'm having a runny nose so i couldnt smell a thing. the process was quite troublesome as the ratio of the amount of chemical to that of water must be 1:4. also, the solution must be twenty degrees celcius. what made it sickening was that the temperature of my solution kept staying at 10 degrees cos the room was cold. so elizabeth and i ended up using our hands to warm it. but it took super long. finally it reached 17 degrees and we decided to pour it into the tank.
today, for the first time in my life, i wasted so much water. you see, after the hypo clear, we had to run water and overflow the container for 5 minutes. 5 whole minutes! it may not seem like a very long time, but it's a lot of water!
finally after an hour or so, i finished processing my film. although wee said that it wasnt well processed cos of some blurred spots, at least i dont have to waste another trip back to little india to snap. yup. what an interesting day man! now my runny nose is clearing and i think my hands smells like fixer. darn. it smells like rotten eggs, or fart, or whatever. you name it. heh.
oh yes. i cant wait for sat to come! we're finally collecting our cell shirts! after so long. yup. and on sun there's a cell outing and bbq in the evening! yay! okay. i better get going now. still have an A2 and A3 drawing to complete. bye!
today, for the first time in my life, i wasted so much water. you see, after the hypo clear, we had to run water and overflow the container for 5 minutes. 5 whole minutes! it may not seem like a very long time, but it's a lot of water!
finally after an hour or so, i finished processing my film. although wee said that it wasnt well processed cos of some blurred spots, at least i dont have to waste another trip back to little india to snap. yup. what an interesting day man! now my runny nose is clearing and i think my hands smells like fixer. darn. it smells like rotten eggs, or fart, or whatever. you name it. heh.
oh yes. i cant wait for sat to come! we're finally collecting our cell shirts! after so long. yup. and on sun there's a cell outing and bbq in the evening! yay! okay. i better get going now. still have an A2 and A3 drawing to complete. bye!
TheServant
9:22 AM