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Summary: Make sure to get all the water off of your film after washing it. Learn how to develop your own film in this free darkroom photography lesson from a professional photographer.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
"So the final chemical that you're going to use in this process is a photo-flow, very easy to forget. But what this does is it's sort of like a finishing agent, and it makes your film a little less brittle, and also less...it won't attract as much static or hair, or things that you don't want on your film as it's drying. And basically, I make it a cap full to a quart of water. Very easy to make too strong. If you make it too strong, it almost looks like too many suds, it's too soapy, so you really want to make this one right. Once I put it in the photo-flow, I take my film off the reel, and that's good. When you can see images on your film, that's good. You don't want to see right through your film or you don't want not be able to see anything. So I can see that my film came out, and to me this is really one of the most exciting parts about it, is that, "Okay, I finally got this." What I do is I squeegee it. They make a little tool for this, but I like my fingers, and I just squeegee the excess water off the film and I'm ready to dry."
eHow Article: Squeegeeing Film: Developing Film