What's Going on in the Classroom: Photography Field Trip

Hello all! I know it's been forever since I posted! I'm not going to lie, I do not have a good excuse :)
However, we are moving right along with the school year and it's almost over! I can't believe how close the end of school is getting. Most recently in photography we have started doing film photography. Students are all taking their own film photos, developing those negatives and making their own prints. Some love it, some hate it, but it's been a great experience.
We also took some time a couple weeks ago to go on a Photography Field Trip to Pewabic Pottery in Detroit. There was a ton of cool history and information to learn about the pottery and a million interesting photo ops!

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.