Sounds like you and I started about the same time in our lives. I was
on the yearbook staff as a junior. I was very lucky and was sent to
several week-end photography workshops at the local university. I
remember spending 8 hours the first day in a darkroom filled with Besler
B&W enlargers and safes full of 8X10 paper for me (of course the others
too <g>) to expose.
I got a little better later too!
Gregg
Dave Bulger wrote:
>
> Hehe -- my first exposure to B&W printing was as a sophomore in high
> school. The two events I remember best were a) letting the new people's
> eyes get used to the safelight-lit room and setting off a 283-equivalent
> directly in front of their face, and b) exposing the hell out of the paper
> and getting a <15 second development time. And I thought that was
> photography!
>
> Later I became head photographer and yearbook editor and used my power to
> extend the recommended development time to 20 seconds...
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