Re: shaking booty at SPE

Ha, Dan,
No they didn't recreate the chemical smell. But let me tell ya about one
BIG problem with digital vs. a wet darkroom: when a project is due
nowadays, you have 150 photo majors loving the ease of digital vs. wet
darkroom, funneling into 12 computers funneling into 2 Epson 4000's and an
Epson 7600, and given the student propensity to put off work until the day
before critique, what a bottleneck. All of a sudden a lot of grandparents
are dying this week...

Next, teaching digital negatives and alt process as I am this semester,
compound that with 15 students doing tricolor gum--a print is due and that
means 45 negatives per week I assign tricolor!! I have been encouraging
small works so that they can at least gange 2 or 3 of the RGB negs onto one
8x5x11 piece of Pictorico.

And 20 nice BW enlargers and 18 wonderful color enlargers with a huge color
processing machine and spacious individual advanced labs sit unused....
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: <dan@haygoods.org>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Cc: "Alt, List" <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: shaking booty at SPE

>> Those who miss the darkroom experience have worked at transforming the
>> digilab to a darkroom experience--low lights, music, etc.
>
> Controlled lighting in a "digilab" is probably more due to wanting a
> consistent monitor viewing environment than wanting to reproduce the
> aluring dark warmth of a wet darkroom.
>
> Say, did they go so far as to leave open trays of developer, stop, and
> fix, to make their digilabs *smell* like a good wet room ought to? (I
> thought not...I know a few people who abandoned wet process work
> specifically because of chemical sensitivity.)
>
>
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Received on Thu Mar 30 07:33:31 2006