I should get some pictures really as the facilities are the best in the world probably.
Can hand tank develop black and white film yourself in the devving room or whack it through either of the 3 MASSIVE machines they have for free. Black and White, E6 and C41. I can offset the cost of Uni with putting tonnes of E6 through the machine!
There is a Black and white darkroom with nearly 30 enlargers. Colour with around 10. Can tray process black and white paper or just put it through the machines they have.
Massive finishing room fitted with lightboxes.
8 fully kitted Bowens Studios.
A scanning room with like 15 flatbeds, 8 Coolscans and around 8 Hasselblad "Drum" scanners.
A post processing room with 30 odd computers in.
And the best part about it, there is a photography store with just about any camera/equipment you'd need that you can loan out for free be it Large format, Medium Format, 35mm, Full frame Digi, crop digi, portable lighting, flashes, stands, softboxes, umbrellas.
They were having massive cutbacks last year but then the head of the photography department said "Nope" and bought a few 50mm F/1.2s, a load of Canon 7D's, a few 85mm F/1.2s and upgraded the studios to better Bowens lighting.
Film is very much alive here and it's becoming a fine art with people not using it anymore.
There is another Ilford Printing Masterclass this week which will be good. A Master Printer from Ilford travels down and gives us all the paper we need working up to a final print on Fibre Based paper which just looks gorgeous.
There are four different photography courses here, Marine and Natural History Photography (Animals), Photography (Arty), Fashion Photography and Press & Editorial Photography. I'm doing the latter and it's very good. I wanted to really do Marine and Natural History photography but I think the Press and Editorial Photography course will set me up better once I've finished next year.
Where is this?
