I am a Holga camera retard….
I apparently just suck at anything that deals with film. I can’t seem to get film to work for me. The darkroom and I also don’t play well with each other….especially when it comes to holga film. I can get 35mm film on the reel in no time flat, well it took a HELL OF A LOT more time to get 120 film on a reel than I thought it would. Seriously I spent a good 30 minutes separating the paper from the film back and trying to get the film on the reel. The film kept rolling up and after awhile I couldn’t tell the paper from the film and was lucky that I got the film on the reel instead of the paper. Why am I so stuck in the digital time? I normally would be able to adapt to using different mediums of doing something. Just I think its my impatience that gets ahead of me…damned ADD and my inability to stay in the darkroom w/out getting annoyed…
After about 2 hours in the darkroom I got ONE good print….okay a decent print, one that I am happy with. BTW…I developed the negatives last week, this week I attempted to do prints. Out of 2 rolls of film I only had about 5 negatives that I could work with…me being the retard that I am used 100 ISO film instead of 400 ISO… :( that was all I had and could find. If it were a nice day when I took the pictures I would have been fine, but I had no sunshine and there for–pretty much no pictures :( So this weekend I must reshoot. I got a roll of 400 ISO from my teacher so I should get something workable :) Also can’t wait till this weekend :) RENAISSANCE FAIR!!! CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAIT CAN’T WAITTT!!!
Anyways…my one print…
very nice info, added to favourites