She was less possessive with the next brother, and my mom's got a photo of me holding him in the hospital(I was 12 going on 13 so plenty old enough to hold him), and a photo of 18 month old me sitting in my late maternal grandpa's wheelchair with my sister sitting in my lap(I looked confused lol)
I have such a profound appreciation for childhood photos now. I can’t wait and will definitely be “that Dad” who takes pictures of every “Important Milestone” with a professional camera lol
Aww, mine were done in either Polaroids(early 2000s baby here) or printed out at Walmart. My favorite Polaroid photo is me dressed as a cat on October 31st 2006, I was a little over 5th old, going on 6th old in November, but I was the cutest cat, my mom also has a photo of me covered in chocolate cake sitting in my highchair on may 8th of 2007, my first birthday
Yeah! It's not called that so the whole process is printing, so you take the negatives, project them onto speical photo paper(if it sees light you're fucked, and have to start over cuz it's really light sensitive) and you put the photos either face up or down, doesn't matter, in a developing chemical. After it's done developing, you can safely turn on the overhead light. It's really cool watching a photo slowly fade into reality, but also nerve-wracking to make sure you got it right and don't have to start all over from scratch. Lord, help you if you developed your film(roughly a 1 hour~ long process) only to discover light touched it and its useless. This process is really tricky to get right because if you overexpose(leave in the chemicals too long), it'll get dark and won't show well. If you underexpose, it'll be too light. It's all a balancing act
Basically it’s a process of correctly transferring a piece of “Metadata” (Image in this case) onto a “special photo paper” which turns this “light” (image) carrying information into a physical piece of “Memorabilia” (Memory). I find that very interesting I will definitely remember this fact you shared. Thank you
Edit: I assume, the purpose of a “Black/Dark Room” would be to ensure the least amount of light can affect the process. Therefore, the “Images” being “printed” onto the “special paper” are “Pixels of Light” arranged in specific unique patterns. Correct?
But the process I listed is B&W film exclusive, colored film has more to it than that. Also the dark rooms in movies aren't anything like IRL ones, they're too bright to actually develop film but it's a movie so ya know
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u/Abandonedkittypet Sep 08 '24
"Really mom?" "Hey, what are you doing?" "MOM!"