{"id":561,"date":"2017-10-23T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2017-10-23T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:32:26","slug":"beeronol-developing-ilford-fp4-film-in-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/beeronol-developing-ilford-fp4-film-in-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Beeronol: Developing Ilford FP4 film in beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m experimenting with different ways of developing film, e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/stand-developing-ilford-fp4-in-rodinal-1100\/\">stand development<\/a>. This weekend I developed black and white film using beer. The mix I used was from <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2017\/03\/15\/st-patricks-photo-tip-develop-film-beer\/\">Peta Pixel and is called beeronol<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The ingredients for the beeronol I made are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50cl of Guinness stout,<\/li>\n<li>12g of Vitamin C crushed into powder, and<\/li>\n<li>50g of washing soda (I baked baking soda at 400F for one hour to turn it into washing soda).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Develop the film in this soup at 86F for 15 minutes. Agitate for the first 30 seconds and 5 seconds every minute until done. Stop &#038; fix as you&#8217;d normally do.<\/p>\n<p>I found the results to be interesting. The beer turned the grain in Ilford FP4+ ISO 125 into irregular shapes, and the grain was larger. Some frames became foggy. Many frames displayed some sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brodie-tyrrell.org\/wiki\/index.php?BromideDrag\">bromide drag<\/a>. Some frames were flat and others super contrasty.<\/p>\n<p>In the example below you can see 8 bands of bromide drag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img638-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img638-1-1024x645.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"403\" class=\"size-large wp-image-564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img638-1-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img638-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img638-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">8 bands of bromide drag (Leica M-A, Summicron 50mm, f\/16, 1\/125, Ilford FP4+ ISO 125)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of fogging with bromide drag, too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img657-1024x739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\" class=\"size-large wp-image-568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img657-1024x739.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img657-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img657-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fogging and bromide drag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example that came out okay. If you zoom in, the grains are highly irregular, large and spotty. I suspect this might have something to do with the beer bubbles. There&#8217;s bromide drag in the bottom left.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img665.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img665-1024x649.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" class=\"size-large wp-image-569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img665-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img665-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img665-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some bromide drag, irregular and big grains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beeronol is expensive to make. 2 bottles of Guinness Stout (25cl) is already $4 versus sixteen cents ($0.16) per teaspoon of Rodinal per roll of film. If I wanted to make a photo look like it was from long ago, the irregularities with bromide drag, fog, and graininess make this a good choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m experimenting with different ways of developing film, e.g. stand development. This weekend I developed black and white film using beer. The mix I used was from Peta Pixel and is called beeronol. The ingredients for the beeronol I made are: 50cl of Guinness stout, 12g of Vitamin C crushed into powder, and 50g of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/beeronol-developing-ilford-fp4-film-in-beer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beeronol: Developing Ilford FP4 film in beer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51,27],"tags":[52,53,47],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-film-development","category-how-to","tag-beeronol","tag-film-development","tag-ilford-fp4"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}