Instead of being due on Friday, it’s due the class after, which won’t be until Thursday next week.
That’s a relief because if it were still due Friday, I’d have to finish it tonight. Instead, I did my contact sheets and now I have a little bit more time to think about what I want to print and I’ve got the weekend, plus all day on Tuesday, plus whatever evenings work.
I need to shoot 4 rolls of film today and tomorrow. Two today, two tomorrow.Three today, one tomorrow if I’m lucky. All today if I’m super lucky. And them I’m going to develop them tomorrow night and start printing if possible and or maybe printing on Tuesday and I’ll try to finish printing on Wednesday and I’ve got to mat two photos that I print, as well.
I probably won’t have time on Thursday, but maybe I’ll have time to mat my photos that evening?
It’s all due on Friday, so I’ll be working on a tight schedule. Plus, I’ve got other homework.
I took all these photos for The List, but I never actually edited them. I just put all the photos on a flashdrive and got them printed at Walgreens so I could hand them in at class. I meant to edit them during my free time and I only got around to a few of them.
This was (is) my photo of a friend. This is also when Angela had pink hair, but you can’t really tell in this photo. Her hair is red now, so that’s awesome.
ANYWAYS. As far as editing goes, this probably underwent one of my my more major edits. I think I started this before long weekend? And then I just kind of sat on it for awhile, trying to decide if the edit was a good thing. Basically, there had been a lot of things on the wall behind her and I was trying to decide if it was better with or without them. In the end, the blank wall won.
This is just a crappy cellphone picture, but these are the cyanotypes I made earlier this year. Apparently my prof took them with him to a paper-making conference to use as examples. He brought another set from our class, too, so that’s really cool. And he said they were on display or something, too.
Tonight’s darkroom adventure is slightly frustrating.
Pretty much everyone from my class has been here tonight. Currently, all ten enlargers are in use. I got my film developed and I’m staring at my negatives in boredom. I can’t make my contact sheet or my two prints until a freaking enlarger opens up.
At least I’m not the only one stuck in the hall waiting. There’s another girl waiting in the hallway with me.
It just really sucks. We get back from break yesterday and now EVERYONE is in the darkroom tonight. I kind of figured there’d be some people here, but I would have guessed a few more people would have finished before break.
Whatever. I’ll just sleep in the darkroom if I have to. I’ve already been here since 6:20-ish.
EDIT
…Now I’m the only one waiting. Why do I have to be a nice person? Seriously. If I weren’t a nice person, I would’ve jumped on that enlarger like it was a pan of cookies fresh out of the oven.
My photo class is over at SJU, so that’s the darkroom I use. I took the bus over there at 7, got there at 7:15. I probably started developing my film around 7:30, 7:45. That took a decent amount of time. 5 minutes here, another 5 there, plus all the shit in between. I had my negatives in the dryer by 8:30. They’re in there for 40 minutes. They’ll be dry in ten.
HOWEVER. I forgot my photo paper. So instead of hanging around the art building for 40 minutes with my laptop, I had to take the 8:45 bus back to CSB. I got back at 9, but the next bus won’t be here until 9:30. And then it’ll take another 15 minutes to get back to SJU. Plus 15 or so to get to the art building and get my negatives cut up and all the chemicals set up.
So I won’t start making my contact sheet until, oh, 10pm? And then I’ll probably get stuck taking the 10:45 bus back to CSB because I doubt I’ll get my contact sheet done in time for me to catch the 10:15. Boo.
If I would have remembered my photo paper, I could have been done in time to catch the 9:45 bus.
Today was the first official day in the darkroom. There are only 8 enlargers, so it’s significantly smaller that my high school’s darkroom. I actually kind of miss Kennedy’s darkroom. For a high school, it was pretty damn nice.
Anyways. It was the whole basic “this is how you work an enlarger” and “this is how you develop your prints” and “this is how you make a contact sheet” type of crap. Basic stuff for me, considering I’ve been in a darkroom and taken film classes before. It was still awesome to develop prints, though. God, I’ve missed that process.
Oh, and a girl fainted. That was… That was actually very worrisome. Last I checked, she was okay. But still. Fainting in the darkroom is scary shit, yo.
Other than that, photo is treating me well. We should be getting our cyanotypes back next week, so woohoo! I really want to scan mine and post them up here because I LOVE how they turned out. Also, we’ve got two more rolls of film to work on. One will simply be taking a whole roll of photos of a goddamn chair. We’re supposed to “try to make it interesting” or some shit like that. The other roll will be of one object also, and we have to use bracketing for it. I’ll probably try to get at least one of the rolls done on Friday so I can get in the darkroom at some point next week. I’d go this weekend, but I’m gonna be gone, dammit.
Make a photograph with a photograph in its composition
Something that is moving
An image with text in the composition
Something you have never seen photographed
Sweaty
Love
Beauty
Funny
Shocking
Spiritual
Death
Injustice
What you are feeling at the moment you are taking this picture
Due: Monday, 9-26
Yep. That’s what I gotta do before class on Monday. And to complicate things, I have to get the images printed. At least we get to do this with a digital camera. but I still gotta go to Walgreens or Target or something on Sunday.
This is from the beginning of May, the same day as this and this. There were people from my class going in and out the whole 6 hours I was in that room because we all had to finish our monoprints for the next day.
