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Summary: Buy film in bulk to save money. Learn how much to spend when purchasing darkroom chemicals from a professional photographer in this free darkroom photography lesson.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
"One thing that you want to think about, and this, it seems trivial, but it's actually, I think, fairly important, is you have to itemize your supplies and think what you need most compared to what you need least. When I was starting, I bought a lot of paper all at once when I was in school, I mean a lot of paper, a few thousand dollars worth of paper, and I didn't think about buying the film. So I bought a couple hundred rolls of film, but I had way more paper than I had film, and actually I probably, definitely, should have did it the other way around. It's more important to have film than it is to have paper, because you want to remember, doing darkroom black and white photography, the thing you want to keep pushing yourself to do is to take pictures. I know when I was in school, we had to shoot thirty rolls of film a week, and if you didn't meet that thirty rolls of film, really, you were going to fail the class. So basically you constantly had an amount of images to choose from to print, and I'm just saying this because at that time I had tons of supplies to print with, but really not enough film to shoot with. So you always want to think, "Well, what do I want to do"?"
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