Dark Room Photography

[day tripper]

Share it if you've got it. I've been waiting for this forum!! I'm so excited to share my work and see others' work, and we can critique! :D So, if anyone else takes B&W photos and processes them (not at wal-mart or walgreens), post here!

Here's some of my work:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img061.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img065.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img068.jpg

[day tripper]

this may take a couple posts...

and the hideous white specks on the photos are from the scanner, unfortunately.

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img066.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img069.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img070.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img073.jpg

[day tripper]

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img059-Edit.png
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img067.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img074.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img075.jpg

[day tripper]

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img055.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img056.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img078.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/lthomp67215/photography/img079.jpg

[LIBRA]

Wow, fantastic!!!!!!! That one of your face is awesome, so raw yet so beautiful! Great work!

You have wicked long toes too :D lol

Ive always wanted to learn how to process film, work in a dark room. Always gives me flashes of a scary movie though,lol

That stair well is wicked!!

[Unkle_John]

Those are awesome shots!
It reminds me of my darkroom photo classes. Man I loved it, but I hated the smell of the chemicals on my hands. You mind if I post mine (i don't have much) here?

[day tripper]

You mind if I post mine (i don't have much) here?


Of course! That's why I made this thread. And, those ARE my assignments from my first photo lab class (that's why some carry the same theme-self portrait, light/shadows, cemetery, double exposure). My roommate had a scanner, but she moved, so I can't upload anymore until I can get my hands on one.

And thanks Libra, now I'm even more self conscious about my feet!! j/k...but my toes do look pretty long in that photo, haha!

[LIBRA]

Whos looking at your feet with a gorgeous face like that ;)

You have cute feets anyways I was just picken cause my toes are like lil mini tootsie rolls LOL

[day tripper]

come on Unkle, let's see them!

[Unkle_John]

Eh.. I'm still looking for them. I know they are here somewhere.

[PEACE FROG]

Awesome! I wish I was doing something artistic like that. David lynch.

[day tripper]

So, I finally got a new scanner!!!

so, now I can post more work (when I stop being such a lazyass, and get in that kitchen and make some damned prints!)

[PEACE FROG]

that picture on pg 1 with the shadow and the sandaled feet of the photographer gave me an idea. What if you gave a full shadow a pair of feet. Or feet and hands. Oh wait I know, a shadow with one foot on top of the other and out stretched hands done stigmata style. ;)

[day tripper]

that picture on pg 1 with the shadow and the sandaled feet of the photographer gave me an idea. What if you gave a full shadow a pair of feet. Or feet and hands. Oh wait I know, a shadow with one foot on top of the other and out stretched hands done stigmata style. ;)

hmmm....doesn't sound easy. I'd have to put the camera on a tripod, but hide the tripod's shadow in my shadow, while using the self-timer. Unless I could obtain a small ladder, and a tripod that raises well over 5'8"...this could be impossible. I'll think of something, though...just for you. and it'll eventually get posted. I may even do it tomorrow; who knows?

[TreeLove]

nice photos! I have a few from my highschool photo shop, that i'd love to share.

the depth and contrast in your photos is really nice and I really like your layers. . . and we have a toe ring on the same toe! oh and my toes are super long too, be proud of your monkey toes, someday you could learn how to peel a banana with them :p

[TreeLove]

how do you post pictures?:(

[Unkle_John]

I found a few!!

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/art/black%20and%20white/new-1.jpg
"Aggie unicycle accident"

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/art/black%20and%20white/new-2.jpg
Child's grave

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/art/black%20and%20white/new-4.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/art/black%20and%20white/new-3.jpg
my first attempt with using photo as a multimedia
"Fig. 1(a)" Hey it was the 90's I was big into industrial and grunge (still am I guess).

[Dreamer]

This Site is so cool but it seems like people on here just disappear.I started looking at this thread and how cool the pictures we're and then it just stopped and day tripper is gone. Are there UFO's involved,FBI? what the heck is going on at this site?..lol People just seem to vanish from it?! Am I the only one that see's this?

:ufo:

[Little Sister]

Yeah, I don't know if Day Tripper is still around, but I love her work! Amazing with those black and whites and all the shades in between! Mine are not nearly so awesome, but I'll post them some time. I only took one class and realized the credits weren't transferrable so I put them off for a few months until I transfer to an actual university.

Oh and mine are digital, not film. Don't know if that makes a difference in this thread.

[Unkle_John]

Actually Little Sister, you are welcome to start a digital photograph thread. I have toyed with the idea, but just haven't found the time. If you do I promise to post more of my pics. I also do computer manipulation in my work as well.

[Little Sister]

I try to keep my editing to a minimum. Usually just clean up the color and contrast and what not, maybe edit out a few things that distract. But that's usually all.

Anway. I'll get around to it sometime. Can't promise when though. I usually... forget. :rolleyes:

[MelTheOlHippie]

I originally started this for this thread; but it looks like the person that started it dropped out. I’d say she’s either lucky or gifted with ‘future vision’ to miss the long rambling post!

I started it a ways back but have been busy firing off shutters so please bear with an Old Hippie…

{My friend J.T. Allen told me about this place (actually the other forum, which led us here.)

He was going to post my tale-of-woe (different post, just as long and painful to read) in the other Happy Hippie forum but it looks like there is ENOUGH troll activity there! I’ve had my fill of Internet trolls (Anissa Jones’ Network 54 Forum, enough said!) So I registered here instead and saw your thread!

The PhotoNet people hate me because I’d rather have control of my own stuff (and can’t stand plastic lenses or cheap bodied plastic wonder cams! (Although I’ll be the first to admit the Nikon Pronea and Nikkor IX lenses take superb shots with plastic lenses!!!))

O.K. so I’m a Hippie from way back, L.A. and the Bay mostly, with travels through CA. N.M. N.Y. Conn. Ore. and Wa. And a photo/camera freak from way way back! My first camera was a Contax Nettar, I paid $1.50 for it from an old dude that lived over on Sepulveda who took pity on me (I was paying for it with change and he just got tired of me counting it out!) It had no range finder or meter, I had to use the “Sunny 16” rule and guess the distance, my mom showed me how to step off feet. Developing at the five and dime back then cost $2.00 to $3.00 for a roll of 12 with 3X5 Glossy Black and White prints but quality was usually outstanding and only rarely poor (it was done by a human being and unless you were unlucky enough to get a new kid, the pictures were cropped and sometimes even burned in at the corners because you were getting prints from a real photographer!) That was 1956 (I was 8.) Developing took a week or more! The Contax took good photos!

I wanted color but for that you had to have a 35mm and lots of bread! I had a paper route (Jimmy Durante was on my route, when we lived in Santa Monica, his daughter Cee Cee used to throw rocks at me when I rode by.) (You could get Kodachrome in 120 but it was usually mounted in glass slides and cost a fortune and not a lot of people had a 120 slide projector!)

Finally a couple we knew gave me a Kodak 35, had a range finder but no meter. And to my surprise I needed a meter because the slide film wasn’t as forgiving as color negs! We found a hand held Weston at the Pawn shop in Old Town Pasadena, so by the time I was 10 my mom and I would look forward to getting back our mailer and enjoying a magic lens performance on her kitchen wall! It was magic man magic! (Looking back on it I guess we spent all her spare money on my photography hobby, she never complained and I was always biking around taking pictures while she was stuck home. She had a bad stroke and died in ’61, she was 41.)

I got a Pentax H1 (sort of a Spotmatic without the meter) in the summer of ’63 and using B&W 35mm (Panatomic X when I could get it, more often Plus X Pan or Tri X.) And it (along with its replacement Spotmatic in ’69) netted the largest body of work I ever had.) I got Microdol and Panodol (I think) that a local High School teacher would let me have if I cleaned out the darkroom for him at the end of the day (he’d have sent it down the drain anyway…) A friend (a beatnik friend) and I made an enlarger and scammed paper where we could and sometimes were so broke we had to use coffee and citric for film developer and aspirin tablets for paper developer (a whole ‘nuther story!)

(I had tons of pics of the peoples battles for the parks, Hendrix and the Doors, the riots (the first ones) the birth of the hippie movement etc. All gone man, I don’t have a single one left!)

My favorites were the Nikkormat and Nikon F but I had those for oh so short a time… (Did you know sometimes they charge you for your own prosecution and you have to forfeit your stuff?)

The law did me in man and I gave up Cannabis for good on my last stint in the ‘90’s.

Now I am straight and sober, got a job, got a P.O., got the camera collecting bug! Got a good friend in Arizona that sends me stuff (digital and film!) I got a new girlfriend so I’ve been down in L.A. for the last 6 months (I have a place in Marin too.)

I got a Bronica ETRS three lens kit from my buddy in AZ. So I’ve been back in the darkroom through some photography friends at UCLA. But to tell you the truth I’ve been so busy that I have piles of 120’s and 220’s stacked up and am embarrassed to admit that I have been back shooting with the Sony H1 (digital) waiting to get caught up!

If I had my choice I’d be shooting B&W with the ETRS, SQ or Norita and developing and printing on my own, but right now all my stuff is in a closet here at my ladies place in L.A. (And I got no excuse because my AZ. Buddy has shut down his Photo business and right now there are both Dichroic (color) and standard head enlargers (and lenses) still in their shipping boxes at my place!)

Anyway, Loved your stuff!!! I hope to be back at it soon myself, thanks for listening to a fat old beaten down hippie!

Mel (the Ol’ Hippie)

P.S. I dig Sepia too! But the rotten egg smell is not for the faint at heart!}