All the photos taken by students over the last weeks. Today we will choose the best, download them, work on them in Photoshop and post to this gallery and tag them by student name. Students login here. ...

My checklist for developing 35mm 400 Tri-X or Ilford HP5: Wire or plastic reels steel or plastic canisters and tops (if using plastic remember to insert center column) scissors can opener Changing bag (if dark room is unavailable) Ilford Ilfosol 3 film developer (1+9 chemistry to water)  Ilfosol3 factsheet Ilford Ilfostop (1+19 chemistry to water) ilfostop factsheet Ilford Rapid Fixer (1+4 chemistry to water) Ilford Rapid fixer factsheet LFN Wetting Agent thermometer graduated beakers rubber gloves goggles film squeegee film clips or clothes pins Developer mix ratio Mixture should be 9 parts water...

large edited image | large unedited image | related: Abelardo Morell In my previous studio in the Carter Building in Downtown Raleigh I blocked out all my windows with black foam so I could also use it as a darkroom. In the middle of one of the south facing windows, I cut a little circle out of the foam core and then stuck in an old metal film canister open on each end. When I developed old-fashioned prints, and I needed it to be dark, I just pluged the hole. On bright days, when I turned out all of the lights and unpluged the hole, the room was transformed into a camera obscura and I could see a dim...

Pinhhole Photography, Second Edition Adventures with Pinhole and Home-Made Cameras Plastic Cameras: Toying with...

I have about 20 to 30 photobooks that I use for teaching purposes. Here are a few that I use to teach practice, theory composition and history. I cart these around to the various venues where I teach and make them available for student use during class. The Pencil of Nature (out of print) Eugene Atget (Aperture) Julia Margaret Cameron (Phaidon 55s) Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography) James Vanderzee (Phaidon 55s) Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photofile) Walker Evans (Photofile) Koudelka Don McCullin (Photofile) Sabastian Salgado (Photofile) Witness in our Time: Working Lives of Documentary...

  The Basingstoke Canal is located southwest of London. It was created in 1787 by an act of Parliament to serve as a waterway to connect the area of North East Hampshire with the London markets. The tow-path was originally used by draft horses to pull the barges to and from market. Now it serves as a walking and biking trail. When I stopped to frame up the shot, I saw a bike coming down the path, and was hopeful that I could capture him in the frame. Henri Cartier Bresson’s term “decisive moment” best describes shots that come together like this. Often, success in photography is finding a...

In my photography composition lecture I teach a section on golden-ratio proportions and its relationship to the 3:2 viewfinder aspect ratio found in the 35mm camera. I also talk about how these relationships are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms and how they were incorporated into the design of classical architecture. In the picture at right I have overlaid a golden section spiral over one of my photographs illustrating the connection with the 35mm viewfinder. If you measure a 35mm negative you will find that it is actually 36mm x 24 mm, which is a 3:2 aspect ratio. Notice also that the...