Hi, I'm Deborah Gray Mitchell with Deborah Gray Mitchell Photography, LLC in Miami, Florida. In this clip I'm going to show you how to develop black and white film. For the purposes of the demonstration, I'm going to use a roll of unexposed film since I'm obviously in the light. But you're going to take it off of the reel; go all the way, you got to go all the way to the end and you want to handle this film very carefully. You unroll the film and you get down to where the piece of tape attaches to the paper. You get rid of the paper and you fold this tape down to give you a little something for the film reel to hold on to. Now this is a little bit bigger reel, little bit different and you've got to get your film under this thing to hold it. So in the dark of course, you're going to, with one thumb, you're going to put your film in there and you're going to make sure it's nice and straight. Then you're going to carefully, very carefully, wind your film on the reel. Then you're going to add it, put it on your rod, put it into your light type developing tank and as you can see I've several tanks sitting here of various sizes. Then get your film all the way down in here, put your light type top on it. Now in black and white film, there's a say, saying that says, "You expose for the shadows and you develop for the highlights" and what that means is you control your, your shadow areas; your different zones and tonalities by the exposure you give your film. But the highlights, you control by the length of time that you have your developer in there and how strong your developer is. So again, that is you expose the shadows and you develop for the highlights. Once you've gone through all your chemicals; your developer, your stat bath and your fixer; then you wash your film; then you want to put it through a, a Heico clear to cut down on your water consumption. Then you use a wading agent to get rid of the water marks on your film. You dry it and voila, you're ready to go. This is Deborah Gray Mitchell. Thank you for watching.
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