This semester I decided to take Photography 161 to better my knowledge of cameras, composition and just to have an interesting elective. I started the class about a week and a half late because I had some problems with my scheduale, but regardless of missing the first photography lessons I still decided to enroll in the class.
The first time I went out to shoot I was concious of everything. I checked the light meter, adjusted the f-stop and shutter speed, and made sure the composition was exactly what I wanted before I took each photo. I was so excited and I went to Walgreens right away to get my film developed, but unfortunately when I returned to pick them out the entire roll was blank. I didn't even know what I had done wrong, but I was mad at myself not only for wasting the film, but because I thought I had a lot of really good pictures on that roll.
The next time I went out to go shoot, I went with a friend, just incase I had any questions and to make sure that I was doing everything right. We got a lot of good footage and the next day in class I developed the roll. At the end of the period we took the film out and I expected to see all the pictures I had taken the previous day, but instead I once again saw that same blank roll.
After going through everything I did with my teacher, she looked at the camera and told me that something was broken and it was the reason that the pictures weren't coming out, and I was so relieved to find out that it was the camera and not me that was causing the problems.
I was still a little weary after developing the next roll, but as I unrolled the film, I began to see the negatives for the first time, and it was the first time that I understood photography.
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