July 7 2006

I'm in photography camp today. Me and my camp went to the power plant/art gallery .We saw all different types of pictures made with lights ,dots,pencil crayon, etc.We developed our pictures today. We spent two hours in the dark room and we also used photo shop (photo shop is a conputer program which you can use to make your face look like what ever your mind comes to from puppy eyes to fangs). In my picture I have fangs. One eye red and the other white and I have a red chalk board on my face! If you've never been in a dark room this is what it is: you go in a painted black room and you turn the lights off and the red light on (because film does not get effected by red light) then you use the enlarger to project the picture on a white piece of film paper and shine the enlarger light on the paper. The longer the light is on,the darker the picture gets.After you do that you can't see the picture so you have to put it in a chemical.The first one is called bite because it eats the first layer of the paper so you can see the picture. The next one is called stop,because if you don't 'stop' the bite process it will bite your picture so it will turn white!The next step is called fix: it keeps it like it is so you don't make it turn black.Then you put it in water and hang it up to dry. If you want to learn the details go to www.harbourfrontcenter.com/camps to sign up!