{"id":10140,"date":"2015-03-10T02:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T06:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2015-03-06T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:43:59","slug":"negative-and-positive-the-black-white-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/negative-and-positive-the-black-white-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative and Positive; the Black & White Experience."},"content":{"rendered":"

For many years, a crucial part of my photographic process was quite literally the chemical processing of my black & white negatives.<\/p>\n

Having loaded film onto reels in darkness, and spent 25 minutes to an hour pouring fluids into and out of tanks, there would be a moment of truth . . .<\/p>\n

Often the film will have held latent image from expeditions far and wide. Here were moments captured on silver halide, but until this second never before seen.<\/p>\n

As I opened the tanks, I\u2019d be wondering, \u2018What was on the film?\u2019<\/p>\n

Did I capture what I was hoping too? Were my exposures correct?<\/p>\n

I peel off the film from the reels dripping wet and hold them to the light.<\/p>\n

The negatives would tell me in an instant what I wanted to know.<\/p>\n

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The image that I’d see dripping from wash water was something like this. Did I have it? Was this worth printing? Maybe . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then came the arduous, but necessary steps of drying, sleeving, and then, if I got to it, printing the negatives.<\/p>\n

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Sun streams through the clouds as an eastward SBB train glides through the station at Visp, Switzerland in June 2001. Exposed on 120 size black & white film using a Rolleiflex Model T.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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