Learning Photography is a place to learn tips and tools of film photography, the kind of film photography that you can practice as an artist in your own home or in a professional lab or both. The original idea for this site was describing the process of setting up and maintaining your own black and white darkroom at home, and all that information is still here under The Darkroom, but pages like Camera Basics can be applied to newer technology, like Digital SLRs — because at a certain level, a camera is a camera, and let’s learn how to use them to make better photographs!

Explore the topics to the left to find articles about film and negatives: how to develop your own film and what film you might want to use as you take photographs with your film camera.  Learn what it means to talk about aperture and shutter speed and how they relate to depth of field. Learn where you should get your negatives developed, and how to store them once you take them home. Learning Photography is a work forever in-progress. If there are topics that you have questions about, feel free to ask!

Cameras	Film & Negatives
The Darkroom	Digital Darkrooms (coming soon)