DragonWalk opened this issue on Feb 05, 2002 ยท 10 posts
DragonWalk posted Wed, 06 February 2002 at 9:42 AM
Hehehe...well, I don't really know how many of you are pulling my leg here or are actually serious, but here goes anyways... Years ago there were these real weird places like caves, but they were usually in real houses or schools or studios or any place you could get a room "dark enough" and just so you could "see" it even had a special light. As if being in the dark wasn't enough, the agony and torture in such a place was just unspeakable, there was this horrible acid that used to smell bad and they made us mix it all up just right, and then they would stick us behind these machines that looked like big giant microscopes and we had to look into these with one eye, it was horrifying cause you never knew who might creep up behind you! Anyways, they used to hang these things around our necks called camera's and they made us go out and take pictures and once we did we were shut into these black rooms of despair until we came out with something worthwhile to show. Many of my dear friends didn't make it, they were overcome by fumes or failed to gaze into the giant machines properly and some just could not take that dark abyss for any length of time and the endurance sent them screaming in the agony of defeat never to be seen or heard from again. Me, I made the best of it, in fact, somehow I liked it, especially when I undured my dark suffering beside some sweet babe caught in the same turmoil. It was fun LOL ;-) Now, all that kidding aside, hehe, this was done loooong before I even had a computer and Photoshop was not even part of my vocabulary yet. I used to spend hours and hours in a darkroom, just as much time as I spent taking the pictures themselves. It WAS amazing the things that could be done in a darkroom, this here one I posted is just a minor triumph and that hazy blur is actually a fluke that ended up being a swwet side effect to too much jiggling about, hehe ;-) Now with computers and photoshop with all its' glorious filters and such this stuff is probably a throwback to the "dark ages" but it was a lot of fun and sometimes even more affordable and challenging indeed. Cheers ;-)