Today I learned how to process film. I didn't know there was so much to it. Like the chemicals and the mixing and shaking, it's a lot to do just for some pictures to be developed. And it takes a lot of time, about an hour to be exact, but I guess you could be processing multiple film rolls at once so it's not a complete waste of your time if your doing it that way, haha.
We talked a lot during this class and I also learned how to roll up film on a little roller thing in the dark room.
Which is pitch black by the way.
We got two homework assignments for this weekend, one of them is called "a day in the life" we have to select an object and observe it for 24 hours in different settings, pretty much whatever and wherever we want. Just have to take a total of 25 pictures before class on Tuesday. The second homework assignment is to bring in some small, funny shaped objects so that we can use them to make photogram's next class.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Tuesday, Jan. 11th: Class Intro.
Today was my first class in film photography. Our teacher, Sam, assigned us all a notebook and the first thing we did when we sat down was decorate and put a name on my shiny new notebooks. Apparently we are going to be using these notebooks for the rest of the class and beyond that when I take the next intermediate class.
After we were all pretty much done with those we got introduced to our new cameras, which is a little point and shoot but it's cute. We learned how all the camera functions work and how to load the film in correctly, and then after we got comfortable with the new cameras we went outside with our first roll of film and went on a scavenger hunt.
Later when we got back into the class room we discussed a little about the YIF expectations and agreements.
Then we all picked a book from the YIF library, chose one photo out of it, then individually shared why we chose that photo and what we liked about it. The photo I chose was a really abstract looking photo of this beautiful sunrise in the mountains, it was a horizontal shot of a lake and the sun hitting everything in the foregrounds. The reason I liked this photo was because even though it was part lake, part mountains and part sun, the whole photo was struck with this orange flow to it and the lake had the most vivid reflection of everything around it. It almost didn't look real. And then by the time we were all done sharing class was over, so that's the end of that story. More to come though.
After we were all pretty much done with those we got introduced to our new cameras, which is a little point and shoot but it's cute. We learned how all the camera functions work and how to load the film in correctly, and then after we got comfortable with the new cameras we went outside with our first roll of film and went on a scavenger hunt.
Later when we got back into the class room we discussed a little about the YIF expectations and agreements.
Then we all picked a book from the YIF library, chose one photo out of it, then individually shared why we chose that photo and what we liked about it. The photo I chose was a really abstract looking photo of this beautiful sunrise in the mountains, it was a horizontal shot of a lake and the sun hitting everything in the foregrounds. The reason I liked this photo was because even though it was part lake, part mountains and part sun, the whole photo was struck with this orange flow to it and the lake had the most vivid reflection of everything around it. It almost didn't look real. And then by the time we were all done sharing class was over, so that's the end of that story. More to come though.
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