In our first two meetings you will learn about the features of the camera and how to influence the exposure to fit your vision of the image. This includes learning about depth of field and photographing in high contrast situations. Image composition is an additional option that we can focus on in a later meeting if you’d like to.

In addition, we will talk about your photographic interests and discuss the aspects relevant for your exploration of photography.

If you already have some experience with photography, we can focus on analysis of your images or any topic of your interest. 

You will receive 1-2 rolls of black & white film from me to photograph until the third meeting.

Bring the exposed film(s) with you to this meeting.
In this meeting you will get to know the black & white film developing process step by step. You will practice loading the film into the developing spools – and develop your film.

While the film dries, we will learn about the “behind the scenes” of b&w film and film developing and then assess the development of your film.

You will also receive a list of things and all the information you need if you wish to continue developing black & white films at home (surprise: you don’t need a darkroom for this). 

In the fourth meeting you will experience working in the darkroom in the red light. You will get to know the enlarger and the chemical printing process.

In the darkroom, you will create contact sheets from your developed films, which we will discuss in depth along with the negatives.

In these meetings we will focus on printing selected photos from your films. You will learn what makes a good print, consider the choice of contrast levels, image cropping and composition, as well as learn and apply the techniques of dodging and burning.

This will be accompanied by discussions and assessments of the different steps up until the final prints. If you’d like, you will be able to enlarge a selected photo to the larger size of 24x30cm. And if you feel like some fun play, we can also experiment with photograms.