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03/21/2004 Entry: "spring break?"

Spring break? Well, the campus was quiet all last week but I was kept busy with work for my alt-process class. I know I've spent too much time in the darkroom when I start referring to being there as work and not play. After eight hours of grinding out 4x5 interpositives from 35mm negatives, my head was starting to spin and my vision was taking longer and longer to adjust from the dim light of the darkroom to the brightness of the lightbox and back again as I checked test strip after test strip.

Close to being finished with the first stage of the game and ready to move on to making the enlarged negatives from the light paint series. I had a scare looking at some of the interpositives I'd made at MICA earlier in the semester. They seemed much darker than what I've churned out lately. I thought I'd have to remake about a dozen of them but tried a test first. I picked the thickest and ugliest one and made a 8x10 negative. It seemed to work out alright when I did a VDB test this morning. I also tested the other end of the scale, with my thinnest interpositive and that worked just as well. I've got about twenty or so negatives to crank out before I start printing for the final project. It'll mean some fast work in the darkroom, as I need accesss to the one and only LF enlarger. Some of the intermediate students are planning to use the school's LF cameras for their projects, so I need to finish my negative production before then.