Kevin was quite surprised by the greetings he got as the other students entered the room. First this Hufflepuff , Kace who he returned the nod but not the smile. Adi who waved at him and although he did see it, he didn’t wave back because he didn’t like waving and then……Eden. She actually nodded at him and the Gryffindor looked surprised for a moment. He had attacked her during the Care of Magical Creatures lesson, why would she …greet him? Unless there was something behind it?

Getting a bit suspicious, Kevin followed the RavenDor with his head and that was when he saw something else suspicious. ………WHY was Cutty using his hands like a frame? Was it directed towards him or…? Forgetting about Eden, Kevin looked at the Slytherin as if to silently say ‘what on earth are you doing?’ and then turned around when class begun officially.

So she was not crazy. YEAH WELL, WE’LL SEE ABOUT THAT! He was just WAITING for her to act out of the ordinary but when asked questions like a normal Professor would he was stunned and glad at the same time. This was why he had missed the first question and after realising this he shook his head and paid attention to the next.

What types of things can photographers control with picture taking? …………..What? Yeah, so , he hadn’t really paid attention in Charms class either when they discussed wizarding pictures. But he was going to try. “A camera” Ravenclaw worthy answer, Hirase.

Kace heard the professor's explanation and nodded. It made sense and he smiled and went onto the next thing. What could the picture taker control when he/she wanted to take pictures. Kace heard his student's answers and they seemed right but he wanted to think outside the box. "Professor the photographer can control the location of where they want to take pictures." Seemed logical right? Sometimes the right location can make the best picture.

"So as you can see there's quite a bit that can be controlled by the photographer. And the advantage to digital is that if you forget something, you can most likely adjust it later before processing the photographs due to the freedom of being able to easily manipulate digital copies." Assuming of course you had that sort of talent and skill.

"But film processing is our focus here. Which you can get the film from a disposable camera such as this one," she held up the Kodak on her desk. "Or a roll such as this," she held up a cylindrical black roll. "When you take a photograph with film, the subject you're filming gets transposed onto the photographic film. The negative image on the film is traditionally used to transfer or create a positive image onto a paper base, known as a print. It uses chemicals- a gelatin-silver process - to treat film and paper to produce that negative or positive image. It transforms the latent or negative image, into a visible image, also making it insensitive to light."

"Just for quick review of terminology ... monochromatic means what?"

ooc: we're going to do just a few terms (3-5)... so brief RP posts are acceptable for this point, and obviously so are repeat answers.

Ruby shifted in her seat and crossed her legs the other way. She had TOTALLY been right they WERE types of processing, it wasn't her fault the professor had phrased the question that way. She missed the next one because she was busy looking around, but then she asked about monochromatic and Ruby actually KNEW that.

She put her hand up.

No really, her hand.

Nails. Nails were monochromatic.

"When its all one hue, like my nails." See? Pretty. She flashed them again. Baby blue today, but not just one colour block, it was all shades and tints and blended together all ombre.

And monochromatic.

Despite Sophie's silence, as the other students answered, she did understand a bit more of what was going on, and she nodded once or twice at people's answers. Yeees. All right. Lighting, zooming, angle, focus... those made perfect sense. She wasn't entirely sure how the photo editing worked, but she didn't linger on that thought too much - she just wrote that it could be done with digital, not film pictures.

But negative image... positive image... what did that mean? Had she missed something? Soph's face contorted in confusion, but she refrained from asking. She ASSUMED it meant something about whether the overall imagery of the photo was positive or negative, like if someone was smiling versus crying, but with the way Hadley was talking about it... negative image into a visible image... Soph wasn't so sure that made sense.

She made a note to research that more later.

For now, Soph squinted some more. Mono...chromatic? She offered a hand in the air, "Mono means one..." Chromatic... She knew that word from learning piano - something about a chromatic scale... various tones... err... "Maybe one... tone? Color tone?" Opposed to a musical tone?

Film and digital processing.

Okay so that was the correct answer and Ben learned something. He briefly wondered what type wizarding photography would come under if it wasn't its own type all together. But they were moving on and the Gryffindor remained quiet as he copied down notes into his papers. Who knew what would be useful for whatever classwork or homework they might have later on. As for the term monochromatic...mono meant one...right?

He raised his hand to answer. "One color is being used." Like not black AND white.

Monochromatic? Adi was totally unsure. Did it have something to do with colours? Or was it another 'chromatic' word that had to do with colours? Oh well. The point was, the Hufflepuff had no answers this time around.

Was that Eden waving at him? The same Eden that said that he was scary? Grayson smiled and waaaaaaaaaaved back at her. 'Course he remembered her. And she remembered him because he was THAT much of a memorable person. Just saying.

And then Ruby happened.

A wicked grin spread across Grayson's face at the sight of her. Did he remember their deal? Sure did. He glanced over at the front quickly and adjusted himself so that he was presentable buuuuut he DID lift up a bit of his robes so that only Ruby could see his ankle/lower leg area. Now the REAL question was: did RUBY keep up her end of the deal? HMMMM?

And........ he'd almost missed the first question. Which was one about the two types of processes used to develop pictures. See, he knew all about cameras and taking pictures and then putting the right one up. Did he know about processes? Nah! So picking up a pen and pulling a piece of paper closer to him, he started taking down some notes. Just because.

Question number two? Already? AND question number three? MAN, that was fast. And all the information seemed to be whooshing past him so, picking up his pen again, Grayson wrote down as much as he could. Jeez, how he'd make it to the end of this lesson without a headache, he wasn't sure. One thing for certain, though, was that the third question was a simple one. One. Mono meant one. Unless you were talking about something else.

................ Right. Lulz. When were they going to be taking pictures?

Hady nodded and quickly wrote down what the Professor had said onto her parchment. Monochromatic? What in the world was that? She had no clue what it was or what it meant other then something to do with photography.

Rather then try to make up an answer she kept quiet, quill in hand and waited to see what everyone else had said.

Pinocchio listened to the responses the puppetmaster lady gave to answers. His seemed to work and so he patted his belly to let jiminy cricket know that everything was going just fine. Then the professor mentioned lots of blah, blah, blah stuff and asked a question with a HUGE word. Pinocchio was intrigued by the word and just repeated it, ignoring all the answers as he wanted to get the word right. He could use it in conversation to make himself sound smart! Mon...mon...mono....monno...monoKR....monokro....m onokromateek...monokromateek! He was rather pleased that he learned to say such a large word. Papa Gepetto would LOVE to hear this new word. Pinocchio wondered if Papa knew what it meant.

The class was moving along quickly and Jasmine took notes as the discussion progressed. This was good in a way because it would allow them more time for the practical portion of the class.

As the next question was presented, Jasmine raised her hand to respond. "Monochromatic means one color." That was her short and sweet answer. Then Jasmine listened as her classmates gave their answers and scribbled more notes.

Her answer was right only where digital film was concerned, and that was all that really mattered to her because she so did not use the old fashioned camera that you had to take the film to get developed. That was old school.

Monochromatic? The word sounded long and complicated, but she new that mono meant one, but what did chromatic mean? "It means one of...of...of...something." Color. Yeah, what Benny said.

Fina listened and smiled when Ruby held up her nails as a demonstration. Slytherins - always wanting to show off.

"Yes. Those of you who said one are correct. Particularly it means one colour or one tone. Or one colour shade. Chromatic meaning colours, mono means one. It refers specifically to black and white print."

"With that in mind, what term refers to when you want to talk about colour prints or photo processing?"

She was on track with the one thing, and color was right too even though she never got her mouth to work on that part. One thing you had to know about AJ was that she knew about things, but that didn't mean that she had the proper terminology for them. Thingymabobbers didn't always work.

Photo processing. What was a term for that? AJ was drawing a complete blank. Ohhh... "Professor, is the term developing? You have to go through a process to actually get the film to develop." Was she right? Was she, was she?

Pinocchio's inside voice had heard the question and insistently yelled POLYCHROMATIC!

Pinocchio piped up with the strange word POLYKROMOMATIC! from Jiminy Cricket!

See? He had figured (though uncertain that words meant something about colour. Adi mentally kicked himself for not remembering that 'mono' meant one. But then what? What would he have said? "I think the word refers to a single...something?'' Ha.

Meh. Photography was more complicated than he had thought. Even at this next question he opted to remain silent.

Toby was just... completely quiet, and trying to write all this down as quickly as possible. He didn't have the slightest idea about all this terminology, but then again that was the point of coming to class after all, right? Though... it seemed that maybe Muggle Studies wasn't one of Toby's better classes after all.

Instead of speaking up, the Hufflepuff just remained silent and took notes has he bounced his feet under his desk, his fidgeting making his desk shake slightly, though Toby was unaware. Just taking notes and all, trying to get all these words and definitions down.

Angel looked at the Professor and raised her head. "Is it development like where you take them to the dark room to get them into photo's." Angel smiled though nowadays they developed there and then.

Know something? The Professor had completely lost her after admitting they wouldn't be having explosions in this lesson. It'd been a nice enough hope while it lasted but now it was gone, much like the rest of Lex's interest. Not even Fuller had decided to get so technical. It was just, snap the photo, animate it after and everybody wins. This was nothing like that. No, this was the Professor expecting they'd read their texts and such but the joke was on her because the Gryffindor didn't read and had no idea what was going on in this class anymore.

Hah!

Or maybe the joke was on her...it was a little hard to tell from where she was sitting but her own silence told her that it was possible she wasn't the one winning in this situation. Nothing to be done about that. Not really. Not except pretending to take notes while scribbling little chocolate frogs on the page.

Oh, look how cute that one looked. She'd animate them later when it wasn't so obvious.

Kace spaced out on the previous question and heard the word Monochromatic. He scribbled down and it meant one color. Seemed logical enough. As he was doodling he heard the next question. He had no idea but I mean he could guess right? It was sort of logical. Kace raised his hand, "Well Professor I mean if monochromatic means one color then polychromatic can mean many colors which is used for many colors.." he shrugged and continued to doodle.

Gabe had missed the last, getting a pen out of his bag and handing it over to the Hufflepuff. That was clearly the problem...since he kept looking at his own pen in a certain way.

Quickly taking note of what was being talked about....the term Monochromatic....he waited for the next question, better prepared this go around.

No. Distractions.

Learning...and when were they getting to the science bit? That's what he wanted to know. That's why he'd stayed....

"Is it....erm, color printing?....."

Okay, perhaps she had phrased this wrong, judging from the majority of confused expressions, but oh well. "No, not quite development, as that could refer to monochromatic as well. But well good thinking for Ian there on polychromatic, though not quite." It was a reasonable guess though.

"The term I was thinking of was chromogenic, which refers to the process of taking a traditional silver image and replacing it with a dye image."

"The final technical term that you should be aware of because it sheds light as to what we will be doing, is the word photography. What two Greek roots does this come from? And part two, what do these Greek words mean?"


ooc: answer half, both, or whatever really ... take guesses if your character doesn't know <3

Pinocchio's inside voice piped up once again image writing

Pinocchio cried out Writing pictures He still had no idea what was going on, but if he kept listening to his 'conscience' things would be OK!

Benny was trying to keep up with the terms, he really was, even if his heart wasn't fully in it. The subject nor Hadley was at fault though, the boy still readjusting to recent happenings. Listening to the question on the final term, the fourth year opted to speak up once more.

"I think photo is one...and might mean light," he suggested after raising his hand. But don't quote him, he was making at least half a guess.

Finally! Something to write with! Adi took the pen from the dude. "Thanks,'' he whispered. Now he had to start writing the notes he had missed. He peeked over at Mr. Weird guy's notes. Ooh! He took meticulous ones! Excellent.

Adi leaaaaned a little closer, squinted at the book before he started scribbling in his own book. Then Hadley- Nairne was moving on. Wait. Adi actually knew this. Or a bit of it, anyway. "Phot or photo or a variation of the word, I can't remember which...'' Adi paused sheepishly. Moving on. "It means light.''