Today camp Leo campers discovered a dinosaur of the past that none of us could ever forget; film photography. If you happened to take a photo class any time before the early 2000s I'm sure you remember sitting for hours in the dark room, trying to crop a photo or darken the edges.
Film photography is still beautiful, but I'm sure we are all thankful that we don't have to leave our negatives at CVS overnight.
The irony of all of this is, film photography has now become even more of an art. Camp Leo camper's got their first real experience with film photography today when the developed sun prints.
Sun prints are a basic form of photography developed in 1842 by Sir John Herschel. Little has changed since then. The way cyanotypes work is by developing a negative (caused by a form placed on the contact sheet) being transposed by UV rays. Or in other words, the sun colors things in.
Since this process can be confusing campers worked small-scale at first, on small pieces of paper. They created silhouettes and began to understand the fundamentals of that mysterious thing "film photography".
The images below are some examples
Later this week campers will be making several large-scale versions of these!
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