The Photographer’s Sketchbook – Printing

 

And last but not least, the cover for the printing lesson is a Behanced picture of the bottles of chemicals we use in the printing process.

The Photographer’s Sketchbook – Enlarging

 

Appropriately enough, for the lesson on enlarging, the cover is a close-up of one of our enlargers (watercolor-ized in Photoshop).

The Photographer’s Sketchbook – Developing Film

 

Here’s the cover for the lesson on developing film: the college’s darkroom transformed into a watercolor by Behance.

The Photographer’s Sketchbook – Film Photography

 

Circumstances compel me to rethink my approach to The Photographer’s Sketchbook. As noted last year, my original intent was to create an 8.5 x 11 PDF that could be printed or read online. However, I need to get the class ready for online-only delivery in the fall (thank you, COVID). So I’m switching to Spark.

Spark pages are easy to create and of course easy for students to access from within the course management system. That’s particularly important for the lessons about how to shoot, develop and make prints from film. Even in the old blended format, we did all of our film work together on campus. Now the lessons have to be taught online, with a test replacing hands-on darkroom work.

With that in mind, I’m putting together lessons on film photography, developing film, enlarging and printing. This is the cover image for the first of the four, done with the watercolor simulator in Photoshop.