Yesterday was a magic day.

I never thought I would fall in love with photography even more than when I did the first time I used a darkroom.

But yesterday I got to make a print in the colour darkroom.

Yes chemicals and all, heaps of test strips later, bit of magenta here, little yellow there. LOVE!

We have a really fantastic photography technician at Uni and I am so grateful for that. I am learning so much and his passion of ANALOG photography just rubs off on to you.

So…. for all my friends that are super interested in the process it really is pretty simple, just a little more time consuming. It is  a very similar processing to the darkroom except the chemicals have to be constantly warm so its a machine rather than trays that you are working with. The safe light is super dim so you are practically working in the dark and once you have an image you use a bunch of colour sheets of transparency to decide on if you need to add our subtract magenta, cyan or yellow. After flicking through them all and going for a “fish” as Darren likes to call it, you head back in change it up and test away again.

This process of deciding whats colours to subtract and what looks most real and best has really changed my thought process and way of looking at and taking images.
Even in photoshop, I now have a better understanding of colour correction and why if you do that, this will happen.

I am really excited about the new term and cannot wait to get making on Monday. I have just got to get me some paper for the B&W darkroom so I can have a good experiment with the idea first. And then we are AWAY!!!!

The only downside is the cost, but I am lucky enough to have a group of 5 of us sharing so the cost sting isn’t so stingy.
Once my image is dry, I will post it up :)

Hope you are all set for a good weekend, I am getting puppy cuddles so I am a tad bit excited!
Here he is.. My Paki. Such a happy dog!

L.S.H

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