Moving on Up
Today was quite progressive if I may say so myself. I officially can pry off the end of a film canister, cut off film roll ends, load multiple rolls onto film reels and lock them in a light tight box without 1) hurting myself 2) ruining the film entirely and 3) seeing a damn thing. Yes I developed my first film today.
The first two rolls I learned hadn't actually loaded correctly so I shot two rolls of blanks. This was freaking wonderful considering that we are using the dark room on thursday and the photolab isn't open on wednesdays. For those who have no idea what I am talking about... the photography classes are on tuesday thursdays, all of them, as well as all the week day extra hours and so the lab isn't open at all. You can't do a thing. So I had to shoot two more rolls and develop them before Humanities at 3:30, after finally leaving at 1:15. I managed to do it, with only one major issue... when I loaded the film on the first roll I messed up and the film got stuck together so the chemicals didn't hit them. Oh well, no big deal. It just knocked me out of about 6 frames out of 72.
So that was good, and then on top of my film coming out in drawing we officially graduated, moving on from drawing spheres to drawing spheres on top of cylenders. It was great. I'm so proud. And I spent an hour or so "staring at the object" (meaning finished and waiting for him to let the class go). It was exciting, and I think I heard a promise of a fower pot in the near future.
The first two rolls I learned hadn't actually loaded correctly so I shot two rolls of blanks. This was freaking wonderful considering that we are using the dark room on thursday and the photolab isn't open on wednesdays. For those who have no idea what I am talking about... the photography classes are on tuesday thursdays, all of them, as well as all the week day extra hours and so the lab isn't open at all. You can't do a thing. So I had to shoot two more rolls and develop them before Humanities at 3:30, after finally leaving at 1:15. I managed to do it, with only one major issue... when I loaded the film on the first roll I messed up and the film got stuck together so the chemicals didn't hit them. Oh well, no big deal. It just knocked me out of about 6 frames out of 72.
So that was good, and then on top of my film coming out in drawing we officially graduated, moving on from drawing spheres to drawing spheres on top of cylenders. It was great. I'm so proud. And I spent an hour or so "staring at the object" (meaning finished and waiting for him to let the class go). It was exciting, and I think I heard a promise of a fower pot in the near future.