For the next few weeks, I want to focus on image composition and proper framing. I’ll skip the long post and just leave you with the handout we’re using in class. Focus on practicing on each technique in the handout for a few frames per roll. To help us keep track of our settings, I’m…
As you guys could see in class today (for those of you who showed up) the chemistry while being a reasonably exact science, is not very difficult. I realize that there is a lot of numbers to learn but we just have to make sure we read the directions on the developers we use. The…
10 students in class today and each got a camera while we took a quick stroll through the campus to start shooting our first roll of film. I don’t care how good the shots are for right now, I just want you guys to get familiar with the camera. Creativity will come later. One cannot…
Here’s the thing about chemistry in high school. I flunked it. BADLY. I wasn’t very good at it because it didn’t interest me and, since I had my mind made up that I was going to become an artist, I was convinced that I would never need to learn that “dihydrogen monoxide kills 380,000 people…
I met with Michael from Mike’s Quality Camera and Mr. Boucher in the darkroom today. I learned a great deal about how well-maintained the equipment that was left behind was and some basic pointers about the flow of the darkroom. All the enlargers were in pieces but they were covered in plastic bags and basically…