As my first photography blog post, I feel like it's only fitting to begin where my journey started...
So, my photography journey started with a Pentax film camera in 2011. It was indeed my very first camera I treasured and loved. I remember going for a drive to the mountains with family and photographing everything I thought was special. From small insects and glorious views to taking portraits and the attempt at some selfies hehe... this camera was the one that captured everything! It was like a documentary of my life on film which definitely helped me figure out what I did and didn't like photographing.
My Pentax camera was just the beginning of my collection of old fashioned cameras. Some of my other cameras are a Yashica FR ii, a Pentacon Prakticar B100 and my personal favourite, a Canon EOS film camera. I own more film cameras than digital and I still really want more film cameras such as a twin lens film camera and a 4x5 format camera. Even though it would be ridiculously hard to develop the film, it would be beautiful to own haha
(and by all means, this is not me trying to brag about what cameras I own, I just love film and how it can affect your photography work)
Each camera has it's perks! If you're interested, I'd highly suggest a canon film camera or a 'more advanced' film camera due to this digital era we are in, there are few places to develop film and if you want to learn, it's very much a trial and error phase so it would be a pricey experiment unless you are very serious about film photography and wanting to start from scratch.
Film is a beautiful thing and I believe each photographer needs to experience using film at least one in their lifetime.
As for photography in the darkroom, I would spend hours in the dark room developing prints (even when I didn't really need to) while completing my photography studies, I would loose myself into my own little world haha It was so much fun! Which definitely got to the point of teaching myself new tricks, even when it wasn't even necessary to do so.
A darkroom consists of printing your film negatives on an enlarger with settings that you can change to focus, format and exposure. You can develop prints in colour and black and white, both are as difficult as each other, especially if you don't take the right exposures whilst photographing. But once you get the hang of it, it's amazing what you can achieve and the possibilities are very much endless.
Attached to this blog is a photo I printed in the darkroom from black and white film in.....2011-2012. It's one of the very few photos that I loved working with and achieved whilst in the darkness.
On that note, I guess that concludes this blog post. I'm very happy to give you any tips on anything related to this blog or answer any questions, just send me a message.
Thankyou for your time, I hope you enjoy your day x
Ebony
