than dropping your film off somewhere for some machine to develop! I love working in the darkroom—you have to pay attention to what you’re doing, but it’s not nearly as scary as it sounds. And it’s one of those great things that you can learn how to do adequately really quickly and then spend years playing with, exploring different manual effects and retouching tricks. Finding a darkroom is really the hardest part in this digital age, assuming you’re not on a college campus.