Days 9-12
It seems like forever since ive had the chance to write on here, its been a very busy week! On Tuesday i tried to focus on getting the correct shutter time so as not to uder/over expose my film. I started with 30-45 seconds and got some visable outlines but no real sharp images. So the next day i increased my exposure time, assuming that it was becausee the chemicals were not given enough time to react. I continued to get the same blurry images with no real defined pictures. I must admit, by this time i was becming a bit frustrated because it seemed that everyone else was getting beautiful photos. So on Thursday i had a chat with Mr. Falk and he suggested trying one very short exposure time and one very long exposure time to sort of get a better idea of which direction i should go. Unfortunately neither of those images turned out and my frustration began to rise. But Mr. Falk came to the rescue. He had the idea of covering the camera in a towel wheile it was out of the dark room and, while we were outside, keeping the camera in our shadow so that a minimal abount of light would get to it. IT WORKED!! we tried a dfew more this way and got some really great pictures. Finally i was making some progress. So, today when my grandparents came (it was grandparents day at WMCHS) i had some good pictures to show and we were able to go outside and take some more pictures and i actually felt like i knew what i was doing. :) We were even able to get the grandparents involved in taking and developing the pictures. Overall the week ended on a good note.
For week two we are also supposed to come up with a question to research or test relating to our projects. For mine, i think i would like to research the chemicals used for developing the photos. What are the chemicals on the film and how do they develop? And how do the developer and other chemicals work? Im planning on turning this in to Mr. Falk on manday for him to approve and then we will do more research from there.