I Think I have always loved Black and White Photography more then color....
When I asked for an opinion on this workshop set - thinking it would help me share it faster.( sidetone it didn't haha) The person I asked told me that my black-and-white images tell her a story. A compliment that soothed & brought me back to film cameras and dark rooms.
I have loved photography since I was a child. I would sneak one of my dad’s cameras to take photos of random objects or family members and too many were of our family pets. My pets were the best models, they didn't yell at me because they "didn't like how they looked" after. Cameras just seemed interesting, the way they would capture the light Shined across them. I grew to love b&w more while taking my 1st photography class while learning basics of developing film and images.
My first college class was a"Beginning Black and White Photography" class while I was a sophomore. When my high school did giving me photography as an elective, was when I realized my loved for photography. I was going to learn about in Photography somewhere!
This was before YouTube, those kind of placed didn't come out for another 3 years.. you had to find teachers with REAL credentials to teach a subject if you wanted to learn. .
AND
I
LOVED
EVERYTING
about that first year of photography and truly if it wasn’t for my mom, I would not have gotten into the JC class. I was 16, in heigh school, not even driving on my own yet.
Mom helped me sign-up and we both up took the class . now my mom signed up for the class only because of her priority for signing up. Her thoughts were that she could always drop it and wait for me to finish class so I could keep it. But she got to keep it and our old teacher laughed at the interesting, Mother Daughter conversations her and I had throughout out the dark room & labs.
I couldn’t have felt more in my element on those Thursday nights Popping in the headphones.
Starting that #Walkman
while I danced and Agitating my film to the rhythm of my newly burned CD mixed with the best from 2003, aka whatever finished download from the Napsters or limewire 😂😂.
With the mixing of the chemicals,
The satisfaction of pulling your role from the reels.
A quick finger squeegee dry, before hanging it up.
Finally before a big reveal at the light table.
I grabbed the now dry film,
find some snips,
clip my film into 6 frames per segments,
because I always got all 36 frames loaded up - haha
and it was time to see how good they all were crossing for one that would pull find the rest.
Just loved my days in the dark room, experience - it was so much more fun than these days here at my computer.
