Hi there, Out of thirty-six, my camera had managed to spit out a grand total of three exposures. I decided, regardless, to go ahead and develop the ones that did come out in the negatives. The dark room is my favourite place in the school, it means I can be on my own, means I can eat lollipops and listen to my mini disc player, means I can be out of the way of my art teacher, who for no apparent reason seems to have taken a great disliking to me in the last few years, and I find photography a lot of fun. I chose a photo of my friend emma first of all *Ink Polaroid* This photo was taken, primarily to use up the last few photos on my film, and coincidently was one of the only ones that came out in the end. It's a black and white photo. She's standing outside the police station, which is on the way home. She's wearing my parka, and trying to look all innocent - it isn't working. The sign above the door (reading 'POLICE') is out of focus, as is the rest of the photo, with only emma (plus parka) being clear. *End* As I loaded my negative into the enlarger, I smiled as Electronic Renaissance came on my mini disc player. I usually have music on while I'm working, probably one of the reasons my art teacher seems to hate me. I set out my paper and tried first of all, an exposure for (roughly) 3 seconds, then took it off to the developer tray. As I left it to develop, I started a new one, this time of 6 seconds, which, probably due to my lack of concentration, turned out to be more like 8 seconds, but it seemed to work ok as it started to come through on the paper. By this time, the first shot had fully developed and now lay in the sink, a little light, but ok none-the less. Despite the second shot being longer than i first anticipated, it was still a bit on the light side. I took one more; this time for 12 seconds...this is where it all went a bit wrong. My teacher seems to have a habit of walking in the room at the most inappropriate times, and if it had been me walking in on someone, he probably would have killed me. As soon as I click on the light and began to count, the door opened and in he wandered. Because I'm so fecking terrified of him, I completely lost it, my hand began to shake, and slid about on the button, I had absolutely no idea how long I'd had the light on for - turned out it ended up being on for about 14 seconds, which is a bit much I suppose. Although at the time, I could have quite happily told my teacher to, feck off, he actually did me a favour - in a strange round-about way - 14 seemed to be a good time for the photo and it turned out to be the best out of the three I did today. I started a new film today, just hope I get more photos this time... *Fingers crossed* Patrick x ‘Monochrome in the 1990's you go disco and I'll go my way’ _________________________________________________________________ Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+