cheap dark room

 mostly these days, i take primarily black and white images, using a pinhole, using direct positive paper so i don't have an enlarger etc, i do have a space where i keep chemicals etc that i can use as a dark room space but i tend to do so very rarely. that said, i have been playing with a holga lens recently on an old digital body and, while i don't like the process much, i do like the results, so i can feel myself being gently pushed in the direction of a functioning darkroom. it will be basic - i like the idea of chemicals and processes but at the same time i like to keep things really simple. so this 

developer

currently i'm to lazy to be thinking about how i'm using developer but it's quickly becoming something that will become an issue, especially as, inevitably, a place in the house where i can fit an enlarger/uv box as part of a dark room set up forms itself in my mind.  

dark room getting started

 i set myself up a wee dark room recently. i don't have an enlarger etc (all of that disappeared in my last move) as it's really for pinhole/alternative process work. and it needs to fit in a cupboard. it's not hard but there's technique points that i have gaps in. so these ilford vids are great