>>2998231As it did for me. I had a friend who showed me how to develop photos, and then my gf showed me how to print. These are not straight-forward methods, and they take time to get right.
Since then I've gone to make my own developer, and I think I'm OK at printing and developing.
I just wish there was a solid youtuber that could do this, someone that isn't some narcissist twat, and someone who has passion for it, not youtube shekels. I'd like to point to Mattias Wandel, a Canadian who does woodworking videos in the most inoffensive, yet comfy manner possible, no ego, no bullshit - just great content. If there was a photography equivalent that would be incredible.
Instead what we see is:
Ted Forbes: Used to be good, now pretentious and tiresome to watch
Matt Day: Boring and rambling - christ I can't make it past 5 minutes in his videos.
Negative Feedback: Little drips of good info here and there, but overall a supreme hipster who looks like an alien and is too obsessed with his video's style.
All 3 are mediocre in terms of learning an actual skill to do with film photography.
So ideas:
- Show the basics of film development, history, techniques, people, etc...
- Show what a set up looks like for printing, the principles behind it, the general idea of burning light onto photosensitive paper
- Show how the average joe can do it
- What films give out what output, and what is the difference in b/w dev to colour.
Essentially technical stuff, but weave in personal projects so the audience has a reason to follow you. I really don't understand how this hasn't happened yet.
