cirquemom wrote:Beautiful, and I think the lighting is fine. Have you ever done B&W film photography? I have a full dark room set up here, but don't really know how to use it. I would, though. I love film.
My photography instructor in college...
The first night of class, I walk in the room and there are already a few people in there. On the desk in front of the blackboard was this guy wearing a beat up leather jacket, pipe in his mouth, hands across his chest as if he were dead. Motorcycle boots, very worn and somewhat ragged but all the sexier for being so, and a British cap cocked on his head to keep it from falling off and a gold earring winking in the light from his right ear.
After there's some whispering, shocked whispering, he sits up, glares at everyone with a wicked gleam in his eye (and looking a bit like a sane Charles Manson!) and asks, "WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!?" Then he laughs and asks us if we've never seen artistic genius at work before.
From then on, life was extremely interesting. He was a brilliant photographer and artist - and also ran the local playhouse in town. Oh...and he drove a 1956 wagon where the door tended to fall off if it was opened - so it was kept shut with baling wire and you had to crawl through the open window to get in or out of the wagon.
I loved working in the dark room. The smell of the chemicals was wonderful. And the magic of learning how to push or pull film while developing - and the trick to using color film for b/w prints.
*sigh*
I miss my Pentax.
