Photography Classroom and Darkroom Policies

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Photography Classroom and Darkroom Policies

• Forsyth Country Day School
• Upper School
• Mary Bailey Thomas, Instructor

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Students Equipment Supplies

• Students are to secure their personal notebooks
  and supplies
• in the assigned drawers and not
• left on the tables or counter tops.
• Students daily work ethic grades will be docked
  if they do not follow this new policy!

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Portfolios

• Portfolios are to be placed in the assigned
  portfolio slots.
• One point will be deducted from your portfolio
  grade for each incident that a portfolio is left
  out in the classroom.

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Book bags

• Book bags are to be placed around the edge of the
  classroom wall NOT IN THE WALKING PATHS OR BY
  THE TABLES.
• Book bags placed around the floor of the tables
  present a safety hazard!

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Art Folios

• Art Folios (quality prints for quarterly
  projects) are to be stored in the instructors
  library cart each day on your class assigned
  shelf at the end of class.
• This new organizational process will allow the
  instructor to more frequently check on each
  students progress during the course of the
  quarter.

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Safety Glasses

• Safety glasses are required when working in the
  darkroom, toning in the classroom or developing
  film.
• Students may use the safety glasses we have in
  the classroom darkroom or they choose to
  purchase their own personal safety glasses from
  the school supply store.

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Chemical Clean-Up

• Students are required to wipe up any chemicals up
  when they finish working in the darkroom or
  classroom.

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Chemical Bottles

• All chemical bottles used
• should be rinsed off under
• running water to prevent
• the bottles from chemical
• contamination.

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Working with Chemicals

• Students are only allowed
• to work in the darkroom or
• with chemicals when the
• instructor or her designated
• substitute is present.

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Dry versus Wet Sides in Darkroom

• The dry side of the darkroom
• (enlarging stations and supply
• bookcase) should never have a
• processing tray set on them!

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Enlarger Stations

• All enlarger stations accessory equipment
  (focusers, multi-contrast filters, anti-static
  cloths or brushes, dodging and burning tools and
  printing easels) need to remain in the assigned
  enlarging station.
• Or when used by another student must be returned
  to the correct station before the end of the
  class period.

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• These policies
• will
• help us have a
• great year in
• Photography!