A place where time never ends
Cristina Recalde
Issue date: 3/23/06 Section: Features
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It's 7 p.m. In a dimly lit room with alternative rock blaring from the radio, Katie Hubert patiently rocks a plastic bin back and forth.
The smell of the chemicals rises and takes over the room. Hubert's eyes constantly move from the bin to the clock every few seconds. Everything else around the rooms seems to vanish, even the music. It is just her, the chemicals and the tick, tock, tick, tock of the clock.
When she is finally done, she takes the print out and analyzes it. With a sigh, she brings it back in and tries another one.
"It is just so hard to get the right one you know," she says as she begins to develop her fourth print.
Hubert is not the only one in the dark room. There are many photography students who spend their nights in the third floor of Koch Hall. Art-241A: Introduction to Photography is a very popular class among the students.
Every semester the class fills up immediately after registration begins. This semester it was so popular, another section was added. The class, taught by Kevin Salzman, meets two times a week, and also requires students to work on their own.
Developing the perfect picture takes time, patience and support. There are four students in the classroom next door fighting frustration as they process their films and then proceed to develop them.
Although each student works individually they all support each other and provide feedback on the different prints.
Christopher Pelfrey looks at a classmate's picture while he has his arms inside a black bag. With a frown on his forehead and his eyes focused on the black surface, he spends more than 20 minutes trying to thread the film inside a plastic reel.
"I thought I got it," he says as he looks up. With a look of disappointment, he focuses again on the black bag. Without being able to see inside the bag, Pelfrey must place his film in a spiral plastic reel in order to apply the processing procedure. "I like this class, it just takes so much time," he says.
The smell of the chemicals rises and takes over the room. Hubert's eyes constantly move from the bin to the clock every few seconds. Everything else around the rooms seems to vanish, even the music. It is just her, the chemicals and the tick, tock, tick, tock of the clock.
When she is finally done, she takes the print out and analyzes it. With a sigh, she brings it back in and tries another one.
"It is just so hard to get the right one you know," she says as she begins to develop her fourth print.
Hubert is not the only one in the dark room. There are many photography students who spend their nights in the third floor of Koch Hall. Art-241A: Introduction to Photography is a very popular class among the students.
Every semester the class fills up immediately after registration begins. This semester it was so popular, another section was added. The class, taught by Kevin Salzman, meets two times a week, and also requires students to work on their own.
Developing the perfect picture takes time, patience and support. There are four students in the classroom next door fighting frustration as they process their films and then proceed to develop them.
Although each student works individually they all support each other and provide feedback on the different prints.
Christopher Pelfrey looks at a classmate's picture while he has his arms inside a black bag. With a frown on his forehead and his eyes focused on the black surface, he spends more than 20 minutes trying to thread the film inside a plastic reel.
"I thought I got it," he says as he looks up. With a look of disappointment, he focuses again on the black bag. Without being able to see inside the bag, Pelfrey must place his film in a spiral plastic reel in order to apply the processing procedure. "I like this class, it just takes so much time," he says.
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