Hello Photographers and their Families!
Thanks for another great week! Students are starting to become familiar with their cameras, film, and rolling film onto processing reels. Everyone is itching to get started in the darkroom, but it's important that students thoroughly learn each step of the image making process before we can fully dive in. Experienced students still need to review all the ins and outs before I can safely let students use expensive equipment and dangerous chemicals. I appreciate your patience, artists! I promise you will learn about the darkroom over the next two weeks, and by the beginning of October, we will all be using the enlargers.
I ordered 100 rolls of film and extra plastic processing reels to make it easier for many students to process film simultaneously. Soon, students will be able to start taking photographs. Over the next two weeks, we will talk about composition, look at influential photographs to help guide us, learn to process film, and learn to use the enlargers by making PHOTOGRAMS.
Thanks for another great week! Students are starting to become familiar with their cameras, film, and rolling film onto processing reels. Everyone is itching to get started in the darkroom, but it's important that students thoroughly learn each step of the image making process before we can fully dive in. Experienced students still need to review all the ins and outs before I can safely let students use expensive equipment and dangerous chemicals. I appreciate your patience, artists! I promise you will learn about the darkroom over the next two weeks, and by the beginning of October, we will all be using the enlargers.
I ordered 100 rolls of film and extra plastic processing reels to make it easier for many students to process film simultaneously. Soon, students will be able to start taking photographs. Over the next two weeks, we will talk about composition, look at influential photographs to help guide us, learn to process film, and learn to use the enlargers by making PHOTOGRAMS.
Photograms are so much fun that even experienced photographers will enjoy them. We will use the darkroom enlargers and chemicals; with the help of light sensitive paper, we will expose various transparent and opaque household items to light so we can see what their imprint looks like. As in the image above, we can do some awesome things!
By the time we finish the photogram assignment, students will know how to process their film and use the enlargers. The next step will be printing photographs! I'm looking forward to all the new learning and growing we get to do together. I hope students will appreciate and embrace the calm serenity that working in the darkroom can create in an artist; I want us to keep the peacefulness of the darkroom alive and use it as a time for mindful calmness during the school day. It is one of the things I love most about working in the darkroom, and I hope to pass that experience on to these awesome students.
Thank you so much for your collective generosity!! I have received so many donations and I am SO grateful to be able to refill the budget for more film, chemicals, and other equipment that we desperately need. I just can't thank you all enough for your help. I'm looking forward to meeting all our awesome families on Back to School Night (Thursday, September 17th) - I hope to see you all there!
Right now, students should be working on their Jazz Album Cover assignments. Check the Links & Documents and Calendar tabs for more information. This assignment is the only one we will do where students are allowed to draw, paint, collage, use digital cameras, or anything else they might want to do. Because we aren't fully in the darkroom yet, we have to be a little more creative with this assignment. All the visual art classes are doing this project, and we can still have a blast collaborating while we learn about the technical aspects of our art form.
Thank you all for your continued support and overall awesomeness! Have a great weekend :)
Ms. Spiegel
By the time we finish the photogram assignment, students will know how to process their film and use the enlargers. The next step will be printing photographs! I'm looking forward to all the new learning and growing we get to do together. I hope students will appreciate and embrace the calm serenity that working in the darkroom can create in an artist; I want us to keep the peacefulness of the darkroom alive and use it as a time for mindful calmness during the school day. It is one of the things I love most about working in the darkroom, and I hope to pass that experience on to these awesome students.
Thank you so much for your collective generosity!! I have received so many donations and I am SO grateful to be able to refill the budget for more film, chemicals, and other equipment that we desperately need. I just can't thank you all enough for your help. I'm looking forward to meeting all our awesome families on Back to School Night (Thursday, September 17th) - I hope to see you all there!
Right now, students should be working on their Jazz Album Cover assignments. Check the Links & Documents and Calendar tabs for more information. This assignment is the only one we will do where students are allowed to draw, paint, collage, use digital cameras, or anything else they might want to do. Because we aren't fully in the darkroom yet, we have to be a little more creative with this assignment. All the visual art classes are doing this project, and we can still have a blast collaborating while we learn about the technical aspects of our art form.
Thank you all for your continued support and overall awesomeness! Have a great weekend :)
Ms. Spiegel