Material: Ilford Black & White Glossy Photographic paper, glass stones, dried flowers
During middle school in preparation for my high school art audition, I was taught a brief lesson on photography. There was nothing amazing about the lesson, other than my first time holding a film camera.
Senior year of high school, I was allowed to select my own studio class and I chose photography. I actually was stuck on picking either photography or sculpture. Ultimately photography won because I thought photographers were really cool, and it really is very cool. Developing the films and prints myself was the best part. Going into the film room so I can open my film canister and load it into the reel while doing all this in the dark.
My first assignment was to create a negative (the black side on the left) of items placed directly over a photographic paper. It was really fun to play around with the arrangement. After the print is developed and dried, we had to make a positive of that (the white side on the right). The end result was very cool and reminded me of the kaleidoscope I had as a child.
I think my instructor did a very good job with the assignment. It was easy and got me used to use the enlarger and other areas of the dark room.
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