Today I am happy to say that I spent a glorious seven hours roaming around Lakeview, snapping photos, and then developing them! Chicago Photography Center offers an intensive one-day darkroom film photography class and I could not help but sign up for it. Granted it was a review for me, but I feel like taking intro classes from different people can be a really great way to learn new things from a different artist's perspective. We went over all the basic functions of a manual camera, i.e. aperture, shutter speed, focal point, depth of field; and then our instructor provided us with a roll of film and sent us out on the street to run around and take pictures for an hour (and then I proceeded to make myself a delicious salad at Whole Foods). We regrouped and learned all about developing film, making prints and contact sheets, and then started to watch the magic happen in the developer in the darkroom. Each person made a contact sheet and one or two prints and they were really impressive. The class was a great refresher and the teacher pretty much got an A in my book as soon as he took out the Polaroid cameras and let us goof off and take as many polaroid pictures as we wanted! I would say it was a very successful workshop and a very successful Sunday.
Check out my pictures of making pictures! ( the quality is not the greatest because I had to use my phone, I felt silly bringing my digital camera AND having my manual camera too)
I walked downstairs and saw this GIANT vault door. How cool!?
The workroom
Developing our film
Let the polaroids begin!
Classmates
Yes that is me in the center looking crazy
My photo
The darkroom was...surprisingly bright
Looks like you had a fantastic workshop-filled weekend!
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