Film Photography

For those of you who are into photography, but only use digital: LET ME JUST TELL YOU that film photography is awesome.

Before taking this class at school, I knew the concepts of photography pretty well- if you have a large aperture, it's smaller numbers, and the depth of field is shallower. If you have a long shutter speed, more light gets let in...

Let's rephrase that. I thought I knew the concepts of photography pretty well. Once I started exploring my film camera (this one's a Canon, so I'm officially on both sides of the Nikon/Canon spectrum), I got to literally open up the back of my camera and see how everything works. Now I understand why the smaller numbers in aperture are called "large" apertures, and I see what happens when film is exposed to the light. It's all so cool!

I developed my first contact sheet today (that's basically seeing all your photos for the first time- it's hard to understand what a photo looks like when it's all negative) and I was pretty happy with my results. When I enlarge some of them, I'll scan it into the computer and upload it here to show y'all some of my first attempts at film photography. Granted, they're not as good as my digital pictures yet, but frankly I'm just happy they came out non-blurry and correctly exposed.

I'm loving learning, not only about film photography, but about developing- literally mixing the chemicals myself, learning to take the film out of my camera in total darkness, learning how to expose the pictures onto photo paper. I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in photography.