The Dark Room.

Last week was my first ever experience using a dark room and i found it really exiting. I was a little worried about things at first because I really didn't want to ruined the film as there seemed to be lots of little thing that you could do wrong. The main thing was going into the loading room in complete darkness to load the film onto the spool. At first I was thinking, how on earth am I going to do that? But when I was in there I got a feel for the action that is needed to click the film round the spool. I think that was the hardest part because you still don't know if you have done it right until you have finished the whole process and look at the end result.

Thankfully I managed to process the whole film with no problems. After it had dried it was time to take go into the dark room and make a contact sheet. I had only ever heard of a contact sheet on Photoshop and it ended up being the same thing as what we were going to be doing in the dark room. But it seemed so much more satisfying than making one from scratch rather than on Photoshop. The best thing about making the contact sheet was putting it in the developer and watching it process on the photo paper, and seeing that it's clear and you can see all the individual images all together.