Coming full circle as a photographer. Shoot, develop, scan, print.

[xoagray]

 I finally have all the stuff to shoot, develop, scan, and print my own photos.  But I haven't done it yet.  I've shot plenty of photos, but I'm honestly a little nervous when it comes to the developing.  It's one part of photography that I've never done before.  I have some in paper knowledge, but no practical experience with it.  
I imagine it's like the first time you drive a car with a manual transmission, nothing about it is hard, but almost everyone stalls the first couple times.  I expect my first couple times will be probably be a bit shaky at least.  I'll probably run through the procedure with just water a time or two just to get the motions down, then dive into the chemestry and try a roll.  
it's funny to me that after all these years of photography, I've never done this, even though I started with film way back when.  But I've decided tomorrow is the day.  I'm going to get past this bout of nerves and take the next step.  Being able to do it all in house will be a huge boon and push me forward.  
I'm not nervous anymore, I'm eager.  I can do this.  Tomorrow is the day.  

Comments

[colinstu]

I suppose I'm lucky I got to try and do all this in High School graphics arts class. It was definitely a dying thing, got to try so many things I know have to've been scrapped since attending.

Well have fun, good luck!

Analog Resurgence had a great vid covering it all, I wish our teacher was as thorough / concise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEN8G6z76_A

[xoagray]

I've hit a hick up here and there, but I'm getting there. I'm not rushing things out of an abundance of caution. I realized I needed a funnel and didn't have one yet, now I find I need something to label the bottles of chemistry that I'm mixing. But I'm getting there.

I checked out the video, it's definitely a good introduction to the idea of developing film. I've watched a number of them on YouTube now and read up on it. I still have some things I need to figure out but there's time for it all.

Man I wish that stuff was taught at my school back when I went. I'm not sure if it's because of when I went to school, ('79-'92,) Or if it's just because I went to a small school in a small town, but we didn't have any kind of photography adjacent classes.