For those of you who printed pictures on Tuesday or gave me negatives to print for the Sweet Dreams Art Show, I took the liberty of scanning them and adding them to our class’ Flickr photostream and on the blog. You can find it to the right of this entry. I haven’t scanned all the…
Remember! Tomorrow (May 22nd) will be the last day that we’ll be doing enlargements in the dark room for the Sweet Dreams Fundraiser & Art Show! I will be in the darkroom at lunch for those of you who want to come in to get some extra enlarging time; chemicals will be set up and…
One of my friends—photographer Jen May Pastores—is organizing a fundraising art show for the HEART after-school program called “Sweet Dreams“. You can see the Facebook event page for that here. The mission, troops, is to have at least one piece by each of you in this art show. I’m still not fully briefed on the…
Here are the couple of changes to the darkroom layout as of tomorrow. We will no longer be drying our negatives in the washroom. Too many people are developing film at the same time and we only have 5 drying hangers in the washroom. From now on, after you process your film and remove it…
So we’ve been in class for a little over 2 months and I’m really happy with how well we’ve all settled into the rhythm of class. I wish I could see you all here all the time, but I understand some of you guys have plenty of things to do after school. For those of…
Actually, that’s not a request. I need every one of you guys in class as soon as possible. For the next week or so, the school administration needs to run an equipment check on all our cameras and darkroom equipment and I need you guys (if you happen to be reading this) to return the…
On Monday when we returned from break, we received a nice delivery. There are now over 100 rolls of Kodak Tri-X film in our possession. Where were you when we were handing these out?
After doing a bit of research and doing some experiments in the darkroom today, I think I’ve come to realize that the problem we’re having is that our chemicals have been sitting here too long. This doesn’t mean that they went bad, it just means that we need to decrease the water dilution a bit.…
I drew up the final handout for the film development portion of the class that discusses optimal development times and temperatures. If you want to take a look at it, the handout is here in PDF form. Please print a copy of it and keep it for future reference or ask me for a copy for…
I was told we have 24 hours to spend $25k but I can’t possibly spend that much on things we won’t need so we went through the darkroom during class yesterday and compiled a list of things we needed and proceeded to budget out how we were going to spend so much money on camera…