Darkroom: Color Photography

Darkroom: Color Photography

Adult Class | This program is completed

Prior 35mm or medium format camera experience is recommended.

1/8/2018-3/12/2018

6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Mon

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$220.00

$200.00

$45.00

In this workshop we will discover the disappearing art of Traditional Color Darkroom Photography! You will develop 35mm or medium format negatives, and print enlargements in a darkroom using similar color chemistry to the ones used in your local Mom & Pop Foto-Mat. Do you want that funky 70-80's retro look in your 8x10 or 11x14 sized shots? Do you want a hands-on approach rather than pressing a button on your smartphone? You will master all of this in one term.


WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE
1. How to develop color negative film.
2. How to enlarge, color correct, and print your own color photographs using traditional chemistry.
3. How to solarize a print in color! (a phenomenon in photography in which the image recorded on a photographic print is wholly or partially reversed in tone. Dark areas appear light or light areas appear dark.
4. Experiment with different developers to play with print contrast.


Note that this classroom is accessible by stairs only; please contact Fleisher for more information.

  • This Monday class is eight weeks long to accommodate the two holidays during winter term, January 15 Martin Luther King Day and February 19th Presidents’ Day. The class will not be held on these days and there will not be a makeup for the holidays.
  • • You will need an exposed roll of color film (35MM, or 120MM), or any previously shot sets of negatives.
  • • A camera to shoot new rolls of film
  • • Your instructor will discuss what paper to start with on the first day of class.
  • • All chemistry for color developing is included in your studio fees

Ahmed Salvador received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BFA from The University of the Arts. In addition to teaching traditional photography at Fleisher, he is an exhibitions preparator at the Philadelphia International Airport’s Art & Exhibitions Program. Ahmed has shown work both solo and collaborative (with Scott McMahon) at The Lightroom, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, The University City Arts League, The Art Alliance, and as a Fleisher Challenge artist. Recently, he’s had collaborative work exhibited at the University of the Arts’ Sol Mednick Gallery: “Response Time,” and in a group show in Santa Fe, NM: “Poetics of Light,” Palace of the Governors New Mexico History Museum; solo and collaborative work at Space 1026, “Clarke’s Third Law”; and a solo show at Columbia College’s Hardwick gallery in Missouri: “Home and Other Stations.”

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