Ah, it's nice to be back. Okay, so I haven't been around for a while, but I can explain! I was in Mexico for a week, and then Washington, DC for a week, then spent a week trying to makeup all the schoolwork I'd missed. Gah. School.

Anyway, the fact that I shoot only with film makes it hard to get updates up very often, but I generally get to print in the darkroom once every week or two, and I have enough time to usually crank out about two prints... So some more will be coming soon!

I also tried some "chromogenic" B+W film called BW Select+ by Kodak. Chromogenic B+W film is black and white film that is developed using color printing process C-41, so you can get them developed at a local grocery store instead of by hand. Okay, so I didn't actually want to shoot it, but I ran out of Tri-X AND T-Max, so I was desperate, and it was all I could find.

Advantages: Easily/cheaply developed, you get prints of every negative!

Disadvantages: Image quality isn't awesome... t-max wins quality hands down, negative quality looks wimpy, and you don't have the satisfaction of doing it all yourself.

The negatives themselves are sepia-colored and have very little contrast, similar to color negatives. I'll see how easy it is to print good quality prints from them... but for now, I have the prints the grocery store gave me, which are actually pretty decent, so I'll post some of those soon.

Also, I've grouped some of my DC photos together into a series, so I'll put that up soon. Stay tuned. Um, for shizzle.

-DD

PS: I got my first ever favorite! Grace, you are the awesome. :-D