"Ceiling Fan"

Tonight's print is a 5x7 cropping from some experimenting.

I got a box 'o stuff from a guy that used to be a darkroom geek, and one item tucked away with the easels and chemicals (and radioactive antistatic brush! WTF should I do to dispose of that!?) was a roll of film that expired almost 10 years ago. I learned through experimentation that film looses sensitivity after it expires, and in this case my roll of 400 was probably more like a roll of 100 or 50 ISO speed film.

I happened to experiment with camera tossing (yes, it's a thing) with that roll and exposed our ceiling fan for 4 seconds at f/22 and got this gem. I cropped out some of the composition because there was a bit of extra darkness and I wanted to focus on the light streaks more. A full 8x10 of the more of the negative would probably look great though - maybe with a bit longer print exposure time (30+ sec!).

Tonight's project was more about screwing around in the darkroom than anything else. I also wanted to make a nice print of the "photography not permitted" picture for display on the wall in my darkroom. This kind of thematic effort seemed somewhat masturbatory, but I felt the need to "eat my own dog food" as they say. They do say that, right?