UNSENSORED11

The Melbourne Silver Mine’s annual exhibition of analogue photography UNSENSORED is set to return to Collingwood Gallery on Friday November 25, 2011.


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MSM at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale

The Melbourne Silver Mine is very proud to be a participant in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

We have two group shows in the BIFB11 Fringe program.

Our first show we simply called Melbourne Silver Mine as it has 23 of our members exhibiting thematic explorations of a diverse range of ideas, subject matter and techniques.

Accompanying this show is Just Don’t Call It Street. An installation of  photographs by 17 of our members exploring the notion of street photography.

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threes: street photography

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Black and White film developing at home (part 3)

Ross Holmberg‘s home developing tutorial reaches its conclusion (If you missed them, here’s part 1, and here’s part 2).

OK, so you’ve got exposed B&W film in the developing tank, and you’re ready to run that baby through the developing process.

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Black and White film developing at home (part 2)

Ross Holmberg‘s home developing tutorial continues (If you missed it, here’s part 1).

Now that you’ve got everything you need, the first thing to do is get your film on to the film reel and into the developing tank. This step will be done in the changing bag, and is probably the trickiest step of the whole process, mostly because you won’t be able to see what your hands are doing. If you have a roll of film you don’t care about, use it to practice with a few times in the light until you get the feel of things.

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