Random photo-related musings along with my joys and woes as a photographer trying to manage teaching, making photos, family, and life.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Thursday, February 16, 2023
How to Finish
This is important to remember in all aspects of life, but especially for art making:

Posted by Steve Stenzel at 3:07 PM 0 comments
Labels: Inspiration
Friday, February 03, 2023
How Technicolor Changed Movies
This is just a bit of an interesting history of Technicolor, along with 3 "lies" (or just filmmaking tricks) with regards to the Technicolor usage in "The Wizard of Oz:"
Posted by Steve Stenzel at 1:04 PM 0 comments
Labels: Color Theory, History, Video
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Film and Paper Order!
Here's around $800 of B&W film and paper sitting in my office for my 3 courses at Concordia University this semester:

70 rolls of film and 38 packs of paper!
Posted by Steve Stenzel at 6:06 PM 0 comments
Labels: Concordia University, Darkroom, Film, Teaching
Monday, January 09, 2023
New Semester
I start a new semester teaching at Concordia University tomorrow, and then the University of Minnesota next week. Here's a pic from the end of last semester when I was collecting the last 35mm cameras from my students to return to my office:

Posted by Steve Stenzel at 3:44 PM 0 comments
Labels: Camera, Concordia University, Selfie, Teaching
Monday, December 26, 2022
Sweet Email After Finals
All grades have just been submitted, and I'm a free man for the next week or so! After my first final about 10 days ago, I got this very sweet email from a student in my early design class at the University of Minnesota:
[click to enlarge]
Posted by Steve Stenzel at 9:26 PM 0 comments
Labels: Design, Teaching, University of Minnesota
Thursday, December 08, 2022
Notes on My Door From Students
As we're starting to wrap up the semester at Concordia University (where I showed pics of students in the darkroom and where they printed some great photograms), I've been opening the darkroom 4 hours early a few days each week. I came in at our normal class time after having the lab open all morning to find this note on my door:

Posted by Steve Stenzel at 6:09 PM 0 comments
Labels: Concordia University, Darkroom, Teaching
Sunday, December 04, 2022

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