For someone who's ESL...
Nov. 7th, 2003 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogMy roomie knows a lot of curse words.
A lesson learned this week is that I should never be in charge of the wet work in photography class. In fact, I wasn't supposed to be to doing it. Laura was asked, but she was sickish again and I took pity on her. Lucky fool.
The college really goes out of their way to make photography painful. First, we use metal reels which need to be totally hand loaded in the dark. Second, we have a crappy teacher. Third, we use a reel silo instead of everyone doing his or her own reels a little tub.
Having done developing with both tubs and silos, allow me to tell you the tubs are way better and easier. They're lightproof so that you can do out in the light and they're covered, so the flumes stay put. With the silo, it has to be almost completely in the dark because the film is out in the open. Plus, if you're doing the wet work, you're standing over huge open vats of chemicals and an even bigger water jacket. This isn't a dry line of work.
If a messy person like me, I got crap EVERYWHERE! You need to tilt the silo when developing and I didn't notice that the one tank was on the edge of the water jacket. I was pouring developer all over the floor. Of course, it was pitch black and the damage wasn't seen until after the lights came on.
Michael I ain't. No more hands-on work for me. I'm happy loading my film and then wasting my time in the dark. Ooohh, look at the pretty glow in the dark stickers.
A lesson learned this week is that I should never be in charge of the wet work in photography class. In fact, I wasn't supposed to be to doing it. Laura was asked, but she was sickish again and I took pity on her. Lucky fool.
The college really goes out of their way to make photography painful. First, we use metal reels which need to be totally hand loaded in the dark. Second, we have a crappy teacher. Third, we use a reel silo instead of everyone doing his or her own reels a little tub.
Having done developing with both tubs and silos, allow me to tell you the tubs are way better and easier. They're lightproof so that you can do out in the light and they're covered, so the flumes stay put. With the silo, it has to be almost completely in the dark because the film is out in the open. Plus, if you're doing the wet work, you're standing over huge open vats of chemicals and an even bigger water jacket. This isn't a dry line of work.
If a messy person like me, I got crap EVERYWHERE! You need to tilt the silo when developing and I didn't notice that the one tank was on the edge of the water jacket. I was pouring developer all over the floor. Of course, it was pitch black and the damage wasn't seen until after the lights came on.
Michael I ain't. No more hands-on work for me. I'm happy loading my film and then wasting my time in the dark. Ooohh, look at the pretty glow in the dark stickers.
