Infrared!

I labored in the hot, hot heat of San Elijo and Palomar mountain only to discover that only four of my images were exposed. I shot Efke IR820 through a Hoya r72 filter. Of the four shots that came out, I would say they are fairly successful. I'm pretty sure I somehow screwed up the film when I was loading it because I hardly use 35mm, so there is a high possibility I did it wrong (even though it is hard to screw up). When I went to wind the film, it wound fairly quickly, leading me to believe the film was caught somehow.

Big Prints!

34x40-ish

I didn't know exactly to enlarge, so I used some old negatives.


The image should be rotated counter-clockwise. It's of the window in my living room and the enlargement is about the actual size of the window!

I don't have a picture of my other one, yet!

Confusion-&Lots of Choices

I haven't made much progress with my enlarger since I don't have a dedicated darkroom space. Plus, I've been pretty busy with school. I've only turned it on and off a couple of times, the enlarger seems fine, just dusty. Well, except for one thing; it makes a loud humming noise when I turn on the enlarging light. Apparently the enlarger is in condenser mode (thankfully), but the loud noise is a bit disconcerting. I hope maybe once I blow out the dust, this problem will go away. Otherwise, I don't know what I'll do. But who knows if I'll ever get a darkroom here. I may be setting it up in my apartment when I move out to Portland.


Now on to developing film. I know that different developers have different effects on the film. I just don't know which do what. I guess I'll look into those Darkroom Cookbook books, I haven't yet because I thought they were outdated. But the knowledge would be beneficial. I really want to understand everything that I can in every aspect of photography so I can be a knowledgeable teacher in the future.