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March 01, 2008
The Old School Way
My very first darkroom print. 8 seconds at f/8 with a #3 filter. Shot on Tri-X 400 with a 28mm lens at f/2.8, developed in Diafine.
I've been taking a photography class since January after a few years of attempts at embracing the (mostly digital but, lately, film) hobby.** Until about two weeks ago, I never knew how much fun being in the darkroom could be. When I was in graduate school my boyfriend Aaron was a photography student. While I spent hours working out math problems and writing Gauss code, he would spend sleepless nights in the darkroom, emerging at daylight, not realizing how long he'd been at it. Now I get it. What I don't get is why I didn't develop an interest in photography back then; Aaron was doing what I then thought of and even still consider as interesting abstract work, creating medium and larger scale prints of destroyed (scratched up, ripped up) Polaroids.
That said, most of my existing tastes and hobbies didn't become fully formed until I hit (at least) 30. I always was a late bloomer.
** With all the chemicals, water, and sheets of (expensive) paper, I recognize that this is not a very environmentally-friendly hobby.
Posted by Missy
Comments
I don't think for me it was about being a late bloomer, it just seemed like one day in my early 30's my eyes opened and now I have so much catching up to do.
Posted by: 5chw4r7z at March 4, 2008 08:25 PM
Yep.
Posted by: Missy at March 4, 2008 10:37 PM
keep 'em coming! kudos! i took a photog class, but im too impatient.
Posted by: matthew at March 22, 2008 04:23 PM