Well, about fifteen years ago I snapped a photo of a girl I was going out with in a graveyard and lo and behold, when I developed it look what I did see!! LOL! I'm certain you all know this is dark room manipulation material; just sharing a moment ;-)

It's the 'eyeballs" in the skull that really make the fun! Hey toot's how about a kiss. ( Bluto ) Bsteph

You say it was done in a DARKROOM, and not PhotoShop?

The picture is actually three in one taken with a 35 ml. I took one in a lab, one in a graveyard and one of two girlfriends shaking hands in a hallway. Once I got them into the DARKROOM I created this, there was some planning here LOL ;-) The eyeballs I threw in just today for bsteph cause I figured he'd get a kick out of them, hehe ;-)

You can do things like this in darkroom? HUH! .n

LOL!

You were going out with a girl in a graveyard? phew, hope she wasn't a resident.... Wow, my hat really goes off to you if this is darkroom work - those hands are flipping brilliant!!!! I like the blur it gives around the figures too....cool (",)

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 ;-)

LOL! Wickedly funny stuff! Amazing what could be accomplished in the dark ages of photography!

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

LOL Peter... that brings back memories for me too... although I guess the sweet babe must have been the wife in my case :) I could never get the kitchen dark enough for use during daylight hours, so mine were usually all night sessions. Doing 20"x16" enlargements was a real pain... had to use one of those microsope things while kneeling on the floor and of course you couldn't reach the focus knob on the enlarger from there :)