it didn't take me a decade to develop film correctly, probably 1 roll ? and printing, IDK I did a test strip and picked the time. I've never really had trouble exposing, processing film or printing .. I guess my formative education on the mothership with Bootsy Collins and George Clinton helped
I agree there's a lot of people trying to get attention on the internet teaching us how to breathe but IDK I think a lot of it is to gain attention from younger people who have adopted the internet and the video fast cut as a way of life. some of it is pretty entertaining though, like that techn0-internet whizkid who couldn't figure out how to flip the tape in the Sony Walkman, whatever, I grew up flipping the tape, and my threshold for entertainment is low. I can't blame them for adopting you tube or Vimeo or ticktock or whatever, online forums tend to be tedious, hard to weed out the cranky.. ( as seen by the cranky and sometimes harsh responses to this thread LOL )
The OP has a point with the spiral, it's about finding one's balance and seeing the interconnectedness between everything. all too often people trying to learn how to expose or develop or print don't realize everything is interconnected .. I've always made it a point to suggest people bracket exposures and bracket development and then print or scan or whatever they like to do for presentation, so they can actually see what the OP is talking about. the whole medium is fluid, and sometimes hard to figure out, and then it's about people's personal taste and somebody telling them they did something (that can't be wrong) wrong, whatever... I have more to day but I better keep it to myself
I think people are too worried about the graphic instead of the message behind the graphic, or is it the message behind the graphic instead of the graphic, IDK. I find the OP's language and graphic to be OK, but I'm not fussy. but to be honest, I think it would have been even better if there were two spirals and they spun around in circles and we all were mesmerized, then there were subliminal messages that were broadcast right into our brains to send the OP some cash, you know like Soupy Sales did before he went on to hang out with Kitty Cariistle .. on black and white 1960s game shows.. what we really need is that song to start playing and a vivid meme of gene gene the dancing machine to start dancing around, much better !