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Marcio Faustino

9 Years Ago

Do You Like The Unpredictable?

After about 2 moths using the same Fixer mix I notice a black dust in it when I used for my latest negative developed. It couldn't come from no where outside the bottle because it is sealed to avoid contact to the air and to avoid evaporation. I was then intrigued because I have never seeing such thing during my 4 years working with my film negatives and prints in darkroom.

Later on, with the help of a couple of fellas, I learned my new storing technique was so efficient that I could use the mix much longer without it looses too much of it solution power. To the point where after a while, the negatives silver salt start to accumulate in the solution, becoming visible to the naked eye.

Worst than that, it also become visible on the following negatives it will bath. So the result I got from my last negative was surprising.

The cumulated silver salts made the image much more noise than expected, but I enjoyed the result because the noise was very aleatory on their position and size. To me it feels more rustic and artesian, I don't know why.


Are you the kind who only like what you predicted or you like the unpredictable?






Marcio Faustino
http://www.marciofaustino.com/

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