Class three, the developing.
Posted by Codejoy Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:30:00 GMT
30 seconds and you begin to see the print...I am hooked. This new photoclass is pretty cool. This last class (class number 3), we developed our own film and saw how to make our contact print. It is a funny thing, I am not only into this subject matter but I am actually asking questions. I feel on some level a lot of my college time was wasted cause I only asked questions when I absolutely had to...and usually then in private (anxiety is a horrible thing). I don't know if it is now age, experience or passion but I am now commenting and asking more than I have ever before in class. I like this new me as a student. I was never a kiss-ass in class but seeing as how I went in today on a Sunday for extra time to do contact sheets I feel a bit of a over achiever. The sheets were one for my last assignment, what this image is from and one sheet from a roll of 35mm I shot and developed from my Holga. Needless to say, the Holga negatives were grossly over exposed (f13 at 1/125seconds iso 400 will do that in the bright of day), but I even learned how to adjust the enlarger to fix some of those issues. The number one thing I am learning from this is just how much work my scanner software does for me. Wow. Next class we learn how to make a print... this is an incredibly exciting opportunity as I NEVER (or at least very rarely) make any prints of the stuff I shoot.
I think I was hooked the moment I put the developer in the tank and had to shake, shake, shake. I think when we're truly passionate about something, it moves us in directions we never thought before. And yea, taking time to go in and develop and "play" with materials is something I know very well....and I wouldn't call it being a kiss ass. It's having found something you can relate to; as always IMHO.
I was hooked when I was 16 yrs old. I went to photography class with my dad and I remember wanting this 35mm camera from Mongomery Wards so bad that I used my whole 2 weeks pay check from de-tassling corn in the HOT STICKY summer time job, toward this camera! The only thing I joined in H.S. was the Photography club. I then was a photographer for the Year Book Staff in my senior year. It was fun until .... until I did a Winter Dance and went back to the darkroom and put the wrong developer into the canister. The whole DANCE was GONE ! LOL. Pressure .. but as I recall they were easy on me for the goof up. I still enjoy picking up my old yearbook and I know exactly which photo I took. The fellow that got me interested in Photography and would give me rides home from High School went on to be the lead photographer for the Illinois State Police. I thought HOW COOL and he was on some programs on TV many years which showed him doing his work in a crime scene. You never know where this love of photography will take you! You are going to love working with the enlarger. (if that is what they still use these days) LOL
Oh the enlarger!!! Burning and dodging...I think that was one of the better lessons I had...but developing and printing are so creative (even though it's a pain to get the film on the spool and remembering the proportions and taking the temperature of the water, and yadda yadda). It's all worth it. :)
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