The Catch Up

Tuesday I went in early and developed the roll of film I had taken. All by myself. J *is quite proud of self* It has pictures on the negatives, and they look pretty decent. Went over them with the teacher yesterday.

Today I’m going in early to make prints off of them. We are suppose to have three prints for our line assignment in class on Monday.

Our next film assignment is shape. It shouldn’t be too hard to use up a roll of film taking pictures of shapes…Shapes are everywhere! (Though I found out so are lines. It took me a trip around the outside of the house and my film was gone! And just driving to and from school, and wherever, I‘m seeing lines. Now…To focus on shape.)

Yesterday was our lab in the darkroom again, this time for making prints. First we have to focus our image from the negative, and make a print with a scale over it. (Which just doesn’t quite sound like it makes sense…Hmmm…*shrugs* Anyway…) The scale gives us an idea of how long we need to expose the picture, as there are marks on it that allow just so much light through to the paper during the initial process. (Does that make any more sense? I’ll have to see if I can find a picture online of the scale thing. Maybe seeing it would be helpful.)

After choosing which part of the scale looks like it’s the best on the picture we print another picture using that as a guide as to how much light we let through, and for how long. There are also filters that help with contrast and the like.

I’ll have to scan my pictures (that might help with the scale explanation too) and post them. I’ve got one with the scale on it…One where part of the machine got in the way, and the contrast was too black/white. (Yeah, I know…Apparently when taking black & white pictures there IS such a thing as TOO black & white. *laughs*) I had to change filters to soften the contrast some…Then came up with my final print. It was off my anything roll, not my line one, so I have to still do three line ones. Anyway…It was a picture down at Grave’s Crossing…It’s where the canoes (or my little rubber boat) set in to go down the river. Actually it was from the opposite side of the bridge. (Depending on how long it takes me to get my lines done, I might print out some more from my anything roll. I’ve got a couple more of them I’d like to see how they turned out. Gods…I’m going to be spending sooooo much in paper I think. *falls over* Right now I’ve got a box of 100 sheets. If I can get prints to come out perfect the ‘first time’, that’s still two sheets per picture. I’ll manage somehow though.)

Oh yeah…The rest of the print making process. Duh. *laughs* We are using a dry method, so no trays and chemicals, thankfully. The college has a machine that all we have to do is run the paper through after it’s been exposed to the negative & light. (Like the ones you see at Wal*Mart.)

Photo II learns the wet/chemical process…But I’m not sure I’m going to be taking that.

Yesterday I met with the advisor for Grand Valley State University. O.o It was quite daunting. I need to talk to one more advisor back at NMC before I know for sure what I’m doing.

I could be looking at taking one class at Grand Valley by next year! O.o
Unfortunately I’ve got a list of classes I have to take before I can even transfer over there…Which take up nearly two semesters (that’s at 4 classes per semester, the second would be 3, and taking one at Grand Valley). And that’s without any ‘fun’ classes. Plus it means another math class, aside from my MTH111. They require either that (along with two other classes, one that would be an NMC, and one from them later) or a foreign language. I’ve already tried to learn Spanish back in high school, and it just didn’t work.

I haven’t called Todd all week. I’ve been tempted…But I’ve managed to keep myself from doing it. *sigh* Going to go see him tomorrow at B.C.P. Or that’s the plan anyway. I don’t have a clue how things will turn out…I’m worried/scared/nervous…You name it. But…It’s got to be done…I need something. Either some kind of reassurance, and something that’s going to keep me from being left wondering like this again…Or some kind of closure, so I know what’s what, and can deal with it from there.

Appa is back home, and running right, for the moment. They couldn’t find anything this time around…And he started running right again on his own. *shrugs* Maybe he had the air bison flu. I don’t know. We’re most likely going to have to take him into an actual Chevy dealership and have them hook him up to the diagnosis machine and find out what is what that way. *shrugs*

Got to watch Reese fall apart last night…Was strongly reminded why I am the Anti-parent. *shakes head* I really do not understand some parents. I can’t understand how they can do things that hurt their children, purposefully. One would think that they would do their best not to do such things. I know that there are times you have to tell/do things that your kids aren’t going to like…But there is a difference between that, and making them feel like dirt, or worse, for something that is out of their control. *sigh* And I would think that if this was a child that they could of lost, came close to losing, that they would be even more sensitive…*shakes head* I just…I don’t know, don’t get it.
Most of the time it’s easy for me to forget age…But last night I was reminded that Reese is really only three years older than Dominic.
I just don’t know about some people’s parents.

Well…I’m off to spend day three in the dark room.

My life is a darkroom…One. Big. Dark. Room.

*giggles* *is off to make piccies*