The almighty first post

Ah-yes...it's about 10 til' 11pm here in my apartment and soon I will be feasting on Asian food. I'm eating so late because I have been printing pictures since class ended. I had my three baths ready for the exposed paper since even before I had to go to class. With the sun going down sooner during these winter months, I've been able to print pictures earlier than if it was spring or summer.

A couple of shots came out okay...I'm still learning how to expose pictures correctly with my enlarger and stuff. I rolled my own 35mm film today so now I have two

new rolls of B&W film all ready to go. I'm going to try and shoot around the eas

t village tomorrow I think-I've been shooting in Washington Square Park with my Polaroids, the Pentax and the Kodak.

For those unfamiliar with my film setup, I have an old Polaroid camera that is unlike the type that we grew up with-it's from the 1960s-70s and uses a type of manual pull out film. You take the picture and instead of the picture popping out like the Polaroid cameras from the 80s and 90s, you have to pull out a tab so the picture starts developing.

Once the tab is pulled, the photo and chemicals go through a roller thus starting the reaction with the paper. After you hold it under your armpit (for warmth) for a minute or so, the picture is developed!! You then peel away the chemicals and paper and VOILA! An 'instant' picture.

The Pentax

Spotmatic Sp as it's called, is a camera from the 1960s as well. It is a straight-forward 35mm film camera. Up until today, I have been shooting with store bought rolls of film-at about 4 bucks a roll. TOO EXPENSIVE. Instead, I opted to buy a 100ft roll of 35mm film for about 50 bucks and roll the film into cartridges myself-thus saving boatloads of dough.

The Kodak camera belonged to my Grandparents and was used in the 50s. It uses a type of film called 120 film and has bigger dimensions then a 35mm film. At only 8 pictures per roll, you can imagine how careful I am about my subjects.

I finished my one and only roll of Polaroid instant 600 film (the one we're used to) today. I'll post a few pictures-they'll be the last I take until the Impossible Project (www.the-impossible-project.com) manufactures more 600 film.

I hope you weren't totally bored at this post...actually I don't really mind if you were or not...more than likely you learned something from it! :)

This weird looking thing is a negative I developed of a cell phone tower (looking up into it) taken on my g'parents old Kodak.