Saturday, February 5, 2011

BRRRRR

This has been a crazy week.  Sunday afternoon I was out shooting portraits and by Wednesday morning our pipes were frozen.  Let me elaborate...our HOT water pipes were frozen.  Knowing that the temps were rapidly dropping and the wind chills would frost even the most hardy of souls I got up several times during the night to run the water...the COLD water.  We all know that the water in the hot water pipes isn't really hot until you actually run the water long enough to get hot water out of the tank and to the faucet.  This fact eluded me until that fateful moment when I turned hot water handle on the kitchen faucet and all that came out was a little drip, drip, drip.  DUHH!  I blame my lapse in reason on the wind chill...must have echoed around in the empty space usually reserved for my brain.... 

School has been interesting.  I have a great appreciation for all of your film photographers out there.  I can sit for hours working on an image in photoshop making minute adjustments one layer at a time.  However, I can't seem to find that patience when working in the darkroom.  So far, we've created a photogram using objects to filter or block light falling on photosensitive paper.  Wednesday we developed two rolls of film that we shot over the weekend.  Monday we make contact sheets so that we can actually see the images that we shot LAST week.  I'm all about instant gratification!  While I was out shooting my rolls of film I constantly kept flipping my camera over to view the LCD screen on the back....NOT!  No LCD screen available...no preview of the image that I just shot.  I have no idea if my inspiration actually made it to the film or if it flopped horribly.  I cheated a bit...I actually shot digital images at the same time that I shot the film.  I'm not at all sure how they compare but I'm hoping that the digital preview will save me some surprises in the darkroom.  We'll see on Monday!