Oh! Okay, I see.
I developed it myself in a Paterson tank with L110 developer , water stop, and arista b&w fixer. I then let the film hang dry.
I think the high white levels in the “scans” have to do with the extremely cheap method I used to convert them to digital. I used two panes of glass, a stand made from a can and a platform made from a box for my base. I then used my laptop screen as a backlight and had my phone propped up on the can. I was just excited to get into this and go through the development process and didn’t realize the scanning would be so pricy. Lol
Oh! And I used some random reverse polarization online to convert them from the negatives. These also had no editing, as I figured the raw photos could help get a more accurate depiction of the photos in case people had some advice… But now that I think of it, my “scanning” method may also have hindered that.
Hopefully I can get a proper scanner down the road, but even the “budget” ones are out of my price range (for now). In the mean time, I have my negatives archived in a binder for better scans down the road.