We have three major projects in my photography class and the first one is due next Thursday. For it we have to have three prints (a print is a photo you print/develop from a negative).
    Since the semester started I’ve used 12 rolls of film, so I have a lot of photos to chose from for the assignment. I think some of mine are so good that I’ll even be able to use some for the second assignment.
    I’ve very excited because I now have all 12 rolls developed. I’m very sad because I still have to make 7 contact sheets and print my six prints (The pic above is actually of some of my contact sheets I already made).
    I know printing a print doesn’t sound like a big deal but it’s a bitch. It’s 100 times worse than developing a roll of film. See first you have to make several “test” version of the photo you want to print to try and figure out how long you want to expose the negative to light (The more light you use the darker it will be).
    Then after you have the right time for the overall photo you have to “burn” and “doge” which means over exposing and under exposing parts of your print so that some parts are darker and some parts are lighter.
    Burning and dodging is a pain in the ass. I can do it in a matter of seconds in Photoshop but doing it in the photo lab can take hours and hours and hours! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.
    So needless to say, Saturday from noon till midnight I will be at the photo lab printing my six prints. I’m even worried that in twelve hours I won’t have enough time to do all of them.
    The one good side to all of this is that I officially have two more rolls  of film I have to do for the class. After that I’m allowed to switch to fancy digital cameras that the school is letting us use for free.
    Also, next week, we get to learn how to scan our negatives onto the computer. Once I learn that I’ll scan all my negatives and set up a gallery.