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Some of those B&W chemicals
Originally uploaded by zeneziz. I’ve done a couple of weeks of my photography course so far and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a private course run by an Oviedo photographer called Ricardo Moreno. He’s got a studio and darkroom just around the corner. I stumbled across it while I was looking for english academies (it’s in the same building as the fantastically named Brian School). His photos were all over the walls and they looked really good, when I chatted to him he was a fervent film photographer despite earning chunks of his crust from (digital) wedding photography.
The course doesn’t have a syllabus and when he asked me what I wanted to achieve I said I wanted to produce a film portfolio (I had shown him one of my best of flickr photobooks) and he said no problem.
It’s been a looooong time since I had darkroom time and I realised very quickly that when I was doing B&W stuff in school and university I was doing it very badly. I spent two hours producing one print the other day and really enjoyed the slowness of it, the patience required and the stepwise testing process and choosing what contrast and exact times I wanted. The end result is a print I’m really pleased with (the first from the Bronica- thanks Anne) and I like the fact that it’s not instant, not easy to produce, not instantly replicable. I won’t be ditching the digital by any means, but I’ll certainly make the most of a massive darkroom and lots of time to play.
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Glad the Bronica’s getting an airing in such capable hands. Looks great fun, John!