So I was going to create an account to ask a question ...huh seems I already made an account, neat.
In the meantime I managed to get an answer to the question in question (heh), so maybe I should
introduce myself instead.
I took a photography course in my twelfth year of education which went through the complete analog
black and white process. Alas, at the end of it and my entry into university digital was really breaking
through and becoming the standard for many (at around 8M pixel) and I got myself a Canon 350d.
At some point it got stolen, and when my economy made it possible to replace gear I figured I had
actually missed the analog side. But i didn't really go any further than film processing at the time,
and then "scanning" the result by holding the film in one hand and trying to operate the smartphone
camera with the other. That the subject I documented was something I really cared about and immersed
myself in probably helped filling in the blanks regarding the quality of the result, so to speak.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to build a darkroom in an apartment with few rooms and fewer doors.
Recently I have started to worry about the relentless onslaught of bots scraping the entirety of the net
to harvest training materials for AI, and the chilling effect this will have when it comes to online communities
sharing information and art. At least I feel increasingly disinclined to post my admittedly meagre creations
in publicly accessible places.
In the meantime I managed to get an answer to the question in question (heh), so maybe I should
introduce myself instead.
I took a photography course in my twelfth year of education which went through the complete analog
black and white process. Alas, at the end of it and my entry into university digital was really breaking
through and becoming the standard for many (at around 8M pixel) and I got myself a Canon 350d.
At some point it got stolen, and when my economy made it possible to replace gear I figured I had
actually missed the analog side. But i didn't really go any further than film processing at the time,
and then "scanning" the result by holding the film in one hand and trying to operate the smartphone
camera with the other. That the subject I documented was something I really cared about and immersed
myself in probably helped filling in the blanks regarding the quality of the result, so to speak.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to build a darkroom in an apartment with few rooms and fewer doors.
Recently I have started to worry about the relentless onslaught of bots scraping the entirety of the net
to harvest training materials for AI, and the chilling effect this will have when it comes to online communities
sharing information and art. At least I feel increasingly disinclined to post my admittedly meagre creations
in publicly accessible places.
Hope you get to build yours soon!
