Thursdays January 18th, 25th, and February 1st
Hunt’s Photo, Melrose
Recommended Prerequisite: Working 35mm film camera;
laptop with either Adobe Photoshop/Elements or Lightroom for editing in session 3 (recommended)
Instructors: Emily Hojnowski & Ora Lea
For generations, analog film (35mm, 120, 4×5 and more) ruled the photographic world. But since the turn of the century and the advent of the digital SLR (DSLR), the photographic world has taken a sharp turn away from film and towards digital technology. Few companies continue to make film cameras; numerous film stocks and the companies that made them have disappeared; and developers, papers, and the accompanying enlargers that utilized them have been nearly removed from the market. Was it fate that analog film would disappear entirely?
In the past few years, there has been a growing resurgence in the interest in the art that is film photography. Join Hunt’s Photo Education for our first and quintessential class on film photography: Shooting, Developing & Editing Black & White Film in the Digital Age.
This course will be separated into three sessions that will cover the following material: How to properly load and shoot using a 35mm camera; how to safely and effectively develop black & white film, and how to integrate in digital technology to edit your work.
Session 1: Shooting
During this session, we will discuss the essential aspects of 35mm film, including how to properly load film into the camera, how to properly expose images in your camera, and other aspects to consider when shooting. You will be given 1 roll of Ilford film to shoot as an assignment between sessions 1 and 2.
Session 2: Developing
During this session, we will develop your film! We will show you how to load film into a developing tank, discuss the elements of the chemistry involved, and other various aspects. Because of the many variables, we will only be using one specific type of developer, but we will discuss the possibilities of other developers available and their advantages. Since your film will be wet at the end of session 2, you will leave it to dry and it will be scanned for Session 3.
Session 3: From Analog to Digital- Editing
By session 3, your film will be scanned digitally so we can work with your images on the computer. In this session, we will discuss working with your images in programs such as Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop. We will also give a sample demonstration of film scanning at the start of class. (Due to time constraints of the class, we cannot scan individual work during this time.)
It is required that you have a working 35mm camera with a reasonably fresh battery for this course. If you are unsure, feel free to stop into any of our stores and we can test out your camera!
If you have further questions about this course, feel free to email us at classes@huntsphoto.com.