Printing- Ink Jet

I recently picked up an ink jet printer! I've wanted to see my work printed for a long time but didn't want to go a print shop for larger prints. After doing a bunch of research I've seen just how much of an art printing is by itself. Images look very different depending on the paper you use  amongst other factors. For example some of my images look really bright and saturated on the computer but print out much darker. So they need to be tweaked for the ink your printer uses/ the paper your printing with. I've never been the biggest fan of glossy paper or straight up matte. The paper used in all these photos is a Lustre paper, which is kind of a split between matte and glossy. I really dig how the images look on this paper.  Seeing your work in different light is imporant too. Depending on the environment you put the photo in, it can change how it's viewed. 

Having my images made physical is super rewarding! 

I made my first double exposures this weekend

I recently bought a toy camera called Split-Cam. It's made to take double exposure film photos really easy and it does. I've been wanting a new creative challenge and after shooting my first roll with it i gotta say its super fun. trying to match lines up and thinking of things mirrored. after trying it with this camera I'm going to have to try it with an SLR. I learned about this camera from a youtube channel called Awesome Cameras, check em out!

Experience after developing 10 rolls of B&W film.

So about two or three months ago I picked up all the kit to develop black and white film at home. On my next day off I went out and shot 2 rolls. The two rolls have kind of different themes. One is shot in downtown Toronto and the other is shot in Parkdale (a district of Toronto). Two rolls, two different versions of the same city. 

Developing the first roll was surprisingly easy.  Using a dark bag sitting on my sofa with a pair of Crayola scissors and the bottle opener attachment of a can opener,  I managed to get the film into the dev tank. The second, third, fourth, and seventh tries however did not go so smoothly.  Turns out film is pretty heat sensitive and doesn't like being really warm/humid while being handled. 

By this 10th roll I'm on now I think the chemicals are pretty tired. Time to swap em out. Gotta say also not digging the dev tank I chose. The way the chemicals filter into the tank is not  very efficient. Lots of the chemical spills out the sides. But But but... the funnel. Dude the funnel is flawless. It's got one job and it does it expertly.