How do you make money with your darkroom?

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RalphLambrecht said:

Providing a dark room for rent is a no go as I do not want others to mess with my stuff.

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I would not even know in first instance who would be interested to come in.

ozmoose said:

This thread is proof that the website is in terminal decline. These ancient threads are being revived by persons mysterious, perhaps (or possibly) in a desperate attempt to keep things alive and kicking, at whatever cost.

Time passes, things move on. Photrio has passed, many of us have moved on.

So why am I hanging in here?

Until this post is deleted by Our Glorious Leader, and my membership is deleted, for which I would be ever thankful, as there seems to be no other way of being quite of this site, unless I become completely obnoxious, which is really not my way of dealing with life's issues, in this instance when something is no longer desired but there seems to be no defined way of being quite of it.

Note to OGL. Please!!

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Well, you can learn the difference between 'quit' and "quite'. Then just stop.

I sell prints using my dimroom and all the rest. I am represented by one gallery and I am part of an artist cooperative and sell prints through its gallery. I do not make a living at it and that has never been my goal/intention.

llugguss said:

I rented it and it turned out to be quite successful, so let me disagree with you

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good for you!

I hear some use darkroom for making other stuff, which in several parts of the world is claimed to be illegal, but very profitable.

llugguss said:

To be honest, I am one of those people who previously did not believe that there is an opportunity to earn real money on the Internet, but now my opinion has changed, because I recently came across an application in which I was able to earn about$200 in two evenings. I made the first investment in the amount of$ 10 and then I managed to earn $ 90. It was easy enough to answer the questions that the app gave me. Nothing complicated, the main thing is not to make mistakes, otherwise with each wrong answer you lose up to 2$

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So I found a use for the ignore function after all.
Thought flimflam artists where non existent on this forum.

Earn money in the darkroom? I spend money in the darkroom.

I save money with my darkroom.
I make handmade prints, then I mat them and put them in simple frames. Then, instead of buying something from a store, my wife and I give those framed prints as gifts to those friends and relatives who have expressed appreciation for my prints in the past.

My darkroom is for making prints which I enjoy for myself or given to others. Money goes out well spent.

I'd like to have a darkroom someday and I'm also interested in how it turned out for OP, if anything happened at all. I would assume people know that you're not likely to make a living off of a darkroom. But it seems like it'd be nice to have your darkroom be less of a money pit.

If you could turn a small profit or even just break even on it, it seems to me like that's a lot better than the alternative.

Vaughn said:

Well, you can learn the difference between 'quit' and "quite'. Then just stop.

I sell prints using my dimroom and all the rest. I am represented by one gallery and I am part of an artist cooperative and sell prints through its gallery. I do not make a living at it and that has never been my goal/intention.

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Quit? Quite!

Hello, Vaughn, long time no hear. Good to know we are both around and about (I for one am somewhat 'rounder than abouter 'due to the now-ended Covid lockdown in Australia, but with the coming of summer down under I'm getting out more with my cameras and exercising, so the avoirdupoids is slowly falling away. Do you still lug your Graflex up and down those mountains somewhere on the West Coast? I'm currently exercising my four Rolleis, working through my last remaining 200 rolls of 120 film before they (or I) expire, and now and then making a memorable image, and yes, the dark/dimroom is getting more use than it has for a fair while.

Two bits of good news have emerged from this 'ancient' thread - one, many out there continue to do good work with their film cameras and in their darkrooms/dimrooms, and now and then some of us even earn a quid or two from it (yes, quid, not quit). Two, the Melbourne camera club is alive and well, which is one of the best bits of news I've had on the photo front during this unhappy year.

I think many of us have had more time this year to reflect on the direction/s our photography has gone, is going and will go in future, and with what gear we will be doing it with. Not a bad thing. It also seems that analogue photography is far from gone and in fact may have taken a few big steps forward. If only the price of film here in Australia could come down like the price of fish now that the Chinese are no longer buying our seafood...

Best of the season and good Yuletide/New Year to all on this forum. I am happy to eat my words from my original post.

Resolution #1 for 2021: teach my laptop to spell!!

Hey, Oz...still lugging various sized cameras around...not this past week, though. Saw a basketball sitting at an outdoor court, so I shot a few hook shots, turn-around jump shots, and such, and found that 20 years is too long to keep one's shot -- though my free throws were not bad. But I also rediscovered why I quite quit basketball in 1997 -- now my right knee is shot. I'll give it another week or so before hauling any cameras around again. I'll just keep it to free throws from now on...but I did love playing the game.

Just developed two rolls of 120 Pan F (Rolleicord)...then tossed them out. Poor keeping qualities (me and the film)...plus I accidentily spilt tea on them during a Zoom meeting. A nice Chinese Pu'er, too...so it goes. I have a few TMaz400 rolls to develop...and an Acros and an ancient roll of TechPan. Can't remember what's on them...sometime 120 can be my little format to play around with. And some 11x14 to process. All getting old. And some freshly exposed 5x7 that will probably get my attention next, though. And plan another platinum/palladium printing session (when I can stand with this knee that long.)

Winter is coming -- my favorite time to photograph locally (within a 50 mile or so radius). Between Covid and bad weather, I might make some headway of reorganizing my photoworld around me. I'm behind in filing negatives and all that sort of stuff...and my film holder situation is out of control. Such is life -- far better than being dead.

I've sold a few prints in 2020...enough to cover gallery expenses. I am retired from day jobs I totally enjoyed, house and van are paid for (will be some $ to keep the house upright), kids are working, and between my pension and Social Security I have a dependable income. I sold my car and bought an electric cargo bike to haul my cameras around. I live alone and am not a good cook, so I have lost weight in 2020. Life is pretty good. Without Covid it would be pretty sweet.

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