What's Going on in the Classroom: Fun in the Darkroom!

Hey hey, it's so beautiful outside! It makes me want summer so bad! I've realized recently that I have not been updating this here blog with any images from photo class! We just finished a section where we did some very cool and fun techniques in the darkroom. The first one was painting with developer. This is where instead of putting the whole piece of photo paper in the developer and allowing all areas of it to develop at the same rate, students painted (or dripped or splattered) on the developer so that parts of the image developed at different rates or not at all! The results are really cool! The other technique we used was to sandwich two negatives in the enlarger. This is when two negatives are placed in the enlarger on top of each other cause there to be two images on the paper when it is exposed and developed. This also looks pretty cool, check it out!

What's Going on in the Classroom: Photography Portrait Assignment

Photo One students have a common assessment between our high schools in the district. This is to take a portrait (head and shoulders and at least 3/4 of the face) that they believe represents their best work. Students had to dry mount these and write an accompanying one page defense or explanation of their photo. I have to say, after I hung everyone's up, I was very proud of my Photo One students. Check them out!

What's Going on in the Classroom: Darkroom Developing

I have spent a lot of my recent posts, talking about the projects we're working on in the foundations class that I teach. Today I wanted to show some images of the first film prints my Photo 1 students have developed. This was their first experience in the darkroom alone. Some turned out great and some have room to improve, but over all I think they did well. Check out some of their photographs:

We started of making contact sheets, like mini thumbnails of our work.

Some great images for the first time around. Also an update. Since we finished charcoal in the foundations class, we have moved on to pen and ink. Everyone loves stippling! Not! Here are the technique sheets we worked on today.