learn to use a darkroom

Does anyone know where I can learn how to use a darkroom online????

I need someone to tell me how to do this water-developing thing because I have a report to do on it and i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELP ME DAMN IT!

I just got my first digital still camera a few months ago, it’s only a point and shoot and I am really enjoying using it, but…there is NOTHING like a celluloid print. I have been working with digital prints from scanned negatives for years and have done some work that I really love, but a darkroom print is a carefully created work of art, comparable to a painting.

After you learn to print and walk through a gallery, it’s apparent what was printed digitally and what was made in a darkroom. I am a lover of technology and computers, but if you ever have the chance to learn to use a darkroom GO FOR IT!!

At the very least i think it’s great to learn to develop black and white film in your bathroom and scan the negatives, it creates a completely different look than straight digital images.

The “dry darkroom” has progressed to the point that once you have developed your film (a skill worth improving in itself), the end result (the print) can be indistinguishable (if not better) from that which comes from a traditional darkroom…

i had my first dark room class today!!
well, i’m not actually in the dark room yet, but i have to take two rolls of film for next class, then we’re going to develop the negatives! There’s only 4 people in the class, and the other three know what they are doing, so it’s really like a one on one with me and the teacher…im going to learn a lot! im so excited!

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my darkroom classes start thursday!!
im excited
hopefully my 35 mm camera actually works!!

I finally took a photography class… and it was amazing. It also helped that my teacher was really really good looking. Anyway, yes, it is fun and very stress relieving. It’s one of my favorite things to do now. I happen to love dimly lit small spaces and tubs of chemicals and drying machines and other such photography equipment. If you do, this is definitely for you!

I am just not patient enough for this. Seriously. I LOVE taking pictures and I feel like I have a good eye for photography, but darkroom is frustrating! It takes SO long to just make ONE picture. Besides the 20 minutes of processing the film, printing each individual print takes a MINIMUM of 6 minutes and if you have screwed it up in any way, it’s 6 minutes wasted!!

It is fun if you are good at it and never screw up!! I am glad I learned it, but I won’t be doing it ever again! But at least I know, now!

I can imagine developing your own prints becoming addictive. I only learned about B&W – but really enjoyed the experience. I found myself taking pictures with the developing techniques in mind – thinking how I’d adjust the pictures.

I’d love to live somewhere oneday where I have enough space to have my own darkroom.