It was my first time in a black-room at school, actually quite recent. I had just entered the photography club and I went after school with two friends and we started developing photos. Once I began to develop the photos it was the first time I felt like photography was really "half magic half real". This might sound odd now but it was really thrilling once you saw what occurred to the paper. The photographic paper was exposed to the light with the camera roll and then dipped into some chemicals and there you had your photo. A few months later, during summer here in Lima a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to take photography lessons. I was very interested and obviously was positive about the idea. Photography seems to be something very basic to be a SIGNIFICANT learning experience but, it was actually something very productive and quite interesting. Something similar happened when I was taking these lessons. When I began these photography lessons I expected them to be only review of some of the camera settings and that was going to be it. But there was more to photography than I thought and I was really blown away. I had a feeling like there was no explanation for what photography could do and it was truly shocked, but exciting at the same time. Our teacher would tell us that there was more to just learning the camera settings but lighting and editing. The composition of a photo and how the colors appear on a photo was also mind blowing because it is actually a mix of ONLY three colors: blue, red, and green. A photo can be divided into these three colors and once they overlap, the photo is seen as a normal picture with all the right colors. It was really exciting for me to see that and all of those small, but significant moments made me be as interested in photography as I am now.
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Corey Topf
8/12/2013 09:30:50 am
I was in high school when I learned to develop film, and I remember being just as amazed as you were. I was blown away by the idea of an image appearing simply because we added some chemicals to the paper. Ahhh...the possibilities!
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