My Own Photography

Sandwiching negatives is one of my favorite things to do in photography and I figured I'd share on of my very own images to prove how much fun it is. All you have to do is place two different negatives in the negative carrier and expose the picture on to the photo paper. Its pretty simple process and time adjustments will have to be made, but the pictures always turn out pretty sweet and sometimes you can combine some of the opposite stuff to get images that can look amazing.

Photogram fun.

I was trying to think of something unique to blog about for this post, but nothing really came to me at first. So then I decided to rummage through my old photography binder and came across my photogram over a pictures. They aren't really anything special, but they are pretty cool to watch appear when you are in the darkroom.

This is just one example that I could find of this process, but the basic concept is just to expose a image for the right time and with the photo gram already placed upon it. This can create some crazy images and in some instances make the image look like its doing crazy things like snowing and such.

Keh.com

I don't really know how well known this website is, but I bought my film camera from here, so I'd thought I would share the link! It has great prices and ranges from almost brand new camera to very used ones. The website does a great job of rating and ranking the cameras, plus it has a great variety to chose from.

Check out great used cameras at Keh.com!

What kind of camera?

A lot of time finding the perfect film camera is hard to find. You have to ask many questions when buying and there are so many different types its impossible to choose. Canon, Kodak, Nixon, and so many others have put out different types of cameras in all different types of formats including medium and large.

Not trying to persuade a certain way, but I myself use a Canon AE-1 just like the one pictured above. It isn't much, but it has the old type of feel to it that I just love about cameras. Here are some images of other types of film cameras that might be interesting to check out.

Artist Spotlight: Jerry Uelsmann

If you want to know about a famous photographer, who shined bright in darkroom photography, you'll have to check out Jerry Uelsmann. He is known around the world for his photographic montages made in the darkroom with multiple enlargers and negatives.

Check out his website HERE for more pictures and a biography of this famous photographer.

Holga Cameras

This isn't really a post about darkroom photography, but it does have to do with a certain type of film camera. Recently I was in my university's bookstore and I discovered this sort of toy camera that was sitting up behind the counter. After questioning the man behind the counter I learned that this was in fact a Holga camera, which is a camera that sort of likes to distort color images.

After further inqury and a bit of interest the man convinced me to buy the camera and give it a shot. I discovered it is actually very simple to use and after playing with it a bit online, I even ventured it out and tried out myself, though I have yet to go get the pictures developed yet. The bizarre colors and distortion of this camera make for some great fun, and great memories to share.

Examples of Holga Camera Photographs