![]() I also discovered that on one of my DIY safe lights the cellophane had split allowing a lot of white light in to the darkroom. I did discover a couple of light leaks but these were easily taken care of using the gaffer tape and card. When I used the tent again the following year, I did another check and clean down. I would always advise that any photographer worth their salt does equipment checks before working with the public to avoid disappointment. We could put one tent up in around 20 min, and both in 45 min. We practised setting up and taking down the equipment before we started with the public. Pinhole photograph of Sunderland town centre from #wearexperimenting I managed to get all of my gear in the back of a micra, but it took a minimum of two of us working our arses off to set it up and take it down. The logistics of creating a darkroom that you can use both indoors, and outdoors, and use over and over again, is worth considering as well. I enjoyed every second of putting up and taking down my tent across my City for my community, but holy crap! It was exhausting! Mind you I could still persuaded to go out again when the sun is shining. The physical toll on the people who take these set ups around, is quite a lot. That’s why these bloody minded cracker jack photographers build these mad mobile temples. Understanding the fundamentals of a pinhole photograph can be enough to blow someones mind! It can help them to understand the physical properties of light, how our eyes work, history, science, art, observation, discipline and it can ignite lifelong passions. Having a portable darkroom in any guise allows we alternative process photographers to show people the origins of the art. Intrigue is a great way to destroy social barriers. The shiny interior ended up playing to our advantage when we were set up at festivals, because it meant that our tiny camping lights (covered in several layers of red cellophane) were more than enough illumination for the participants to be able to see the process. I went for this particular tent because I knew that I would have quite a few people in it at any one time, and I knew I would have assistants to help me set it up and take it down. The tent is designed to be completely blacked out from any light penetrating from outside, and it is waterproof inside, which is good for easy clean ups of chemical spills. The tent isn’t completely ideal as the interior is a highly reflective surface, but it does have a couple of things in it’s favour. A hydroponic tent is a tent that is made to be used by people who want to very carefully control the life cycle of plants. I found mine on Ebay and it is 2.5m x 2.5m x 2.5m. I created my darkroom tent by ordering the largest hydroponic tent that I could get. Quinnell has a wonderful sense of humour and is also a fanatic for alternative processes. A few of note that I would recommend further research on are: I know that there are quite a few contemporary photographers who have created brilliant versions of the portable darkroom. ![]() The hydroponic tent set up for large scale printmaking in my studio It also makes the situation a little bit more nerve wracking, and sometimes uncomfortably close! The smell of the darkroom is already fairly overpowering without having your face stuck in someone else’s armpit. This was an ok way to work, but it did mean that I had to scout out the rooms first to ensure that I could make them dark enough. In previous projects I would just rock up to the community centre, church hall, or library and make a temporary darkroom in a cupboard or toilet. I was standing on the shoulders of giants in 2018 when I decided that I was going to create my own for the #wearexperimenting project. He is famous for taking his darkroom wagon onto the battlefields of the American Civil war, (or sending his assistants instead).He created his traveling darkroom studio out of a wagon. He was one of the first American photographers. One of the first examples of a traveling darkroom was that of Mathew B. The pioneers of photography were intrepid to say the least. ![]() The road to the smartphone revolution was littered with the memories of beasts of burden ladened down with giant glass plates, and huge wooden cameras. ![]() A travelling photography studio from Google Images ![]()
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