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 Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:56 am
A Fifty Dollar box of Mitsubisi photopaper.
I had set it on my desk because I was going to use it the next day in my darkroom. My boyfriend's mom was milling around for things to add to her new scrapbook she was making. Her and her husband had gone out west on vacation.
Later that day I was sitting at my computer when she came in and asked me if I had any plain white paper for the printer. I told her that I was almost out and that I gave her about five pieces.
I was pretty bored so I decided to make a trip to blockbuster and get movies. That's when her nosiness began.
The next day I was all exicted because I hadn't developed anything in the darkroom for a while since I hadn't had my hands on black and white film. I grabbed the box off the desk and ran downstairs to the darkroom. I carefully picked the first picture I wanted to do. When I got the print into the developer, I noticed half the paper went completely black almost instantly. I was furious. I tried other pieces, and then I tried the piece on top, the piece on the bottom, and random pieces from the middle. All of them looked like someone flipped through them.
Well, at least I can use half of the paper for smaller prints. Needless to say, a few days later I found pictures of the mountains on my expensive "photo paper" that were printed from a inkjet.
Infuriating.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:53 am
   El Moo is questing for them items...10000/67300
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oh god.
you poor poor soul.
hopefully she will learn to never use your stuff without your permission.
xD
have you told her??
xp
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:40 pm
What size was the paper? Oh man if it was 11X14 or anything I would die or 16x20 JESUS.
Well it does happen and it really is too bad.
But now we know...never leave photopaper out in the open.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:30 pm
That has never happened to me.
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:11 pm
I let her know... but not directly.
Fortunately enough, it was a package of 8x10 rather than something larger...
but still!
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:29 pm
same problem happened to me.
my ex-girlfriend knew nothing about photography but she came visit me at my schools darkroom one night...while i was working. I tried explaining to her about what i was doing and had a box 50 11x14 rc paper in my workstation.
after explaining the general details, she said she wanted coffee so i went out to get us some...
.....and when i came back.... box was open with the paper out. dark room lights turned on. -_-"
her explaination was that she wants to how how different photo paper is compared to normal paper but couldnt see in the dark so turned on the lights.....
i was left speechless...
i dont know if i should be amazed or angry at that time becaues it was her first time in the darkroom and somehow she managed to find the light switch ^^""".
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:30 pm
luckily in the 7 years i've been doing this, i have yet to have anyone else expose my paper.
during my first term at my current school, though, it happened to a friend of mine. he was processing a print and left his paper open at his enlarger, by the back entrance of the room. being a non-photography student, one of the visual design kids opened the door letting the studio lights (where people were setting off the flash at almost full power) pour into the room and the whole box of paper was ruined. and it was an almost new 100 sheet box of 8x10 paper.
i wish i could have handled it as well as my friend did.
i would have murdered people.
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:38 am
EVERYONE that I know knows about darkroom paper's sensitivity
I made sure of it as soon as I started using it
Even at school where I took it to lend it to another girl, I had to explain to everyone I sat with, just in case I went to the toilet and left it there or something.
Sometimes I get worried that I'll be the one to open it randomly, but i'm sure the hole in my pocket would be enough to make sure I never did
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:32 pm
Oh dear.
See, this is why you take a Sharpie and you write threatening notes on your box of photopaper. 3nodding
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 9:02 pm
That sucks.
.. I used to hide my photopaper boxes in the bottom of the closet so no one would ever accidently do that to me.
.. but I lived alone so that was sort of silly. XD
.. not like the cat coulda managed to pry open the box.
I knew a lot of photo students who accidently exposed their own paper.
The only bad experience I ever had was cutting my paper in the dark room and nearly taking off a chunk of my finger.
Thankfully, I DID NOT bleed all over my paper. Go me! (Just all over the paper cutter. And my teacher nearly fainted. Whatever. I healed!)
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:54 pm
Unfortunately, the kids at my school take photography because they think it will be an easy class.
They don't realize that you have to have a camera (even though it is in the course description book) and cant afford one.
So, they don't participate in the dark rooms, and instead they use they're cell phones to text.
they are sitting right by the enlargers with their cell phones OPEN.
It makes me so MAD.
I have had plenty of fogged pictures because of them. evil
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:40 am
Silidrial Unfortunately, the kids at my school take photography because they think it will be an easy class. They don't realize that you have to have a camera (even though it is in the course description book) and cant afford one. So, they don't participate in the dark rooms, and instead they use they're cell phones to text. they are sitting right by the enlargers with their cell phones OPEN. It makes me so MAD. I have had plenty of fogged pictures because of them. evil i'd chunk their cellphones into the chemicals
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