Today we had our inductions into the black and white darkroom at the Caldewgate campus about a mile and a half away. It is the first time that I have been in a darkroom for about three and a half years, so I was pretty excited. We took along our pinhole cameras and loaded them with light-sensitive paper after being given a tour of the facility, and went out shooting. I took my first photograph inside, it took forty minutes to expose, but turned out perfectly, the second and third were over exposed, but the fourth and fifth were reasonably successful, and the sixth was great. Due to the time scales involved we only got chance to do a few prints, but I shall be going back soon. It was great to actually produce photographs from a box with a tiny hole in it - amazing. When I got back home, I went and scanned the photographs in the digital darkroom, and brought them home, where I converted them from positives to negatives. All in all a very successful day I would say.
Below are the first and last photographs I took. The first one is looking up at the skylights in the main entrance to the uni building (exposed for forty minutes), and the last one is looking down the street outside (exposed for three minutes). Both have the negatives and the positives.
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I'm soooooo jealous! I miss being in a darkroom. I used to spend hours in there in school. I love the pix! What fun to use a pin hole camera. I never have. Smell some chemicals for me =)
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