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Mundelein College Chicago greenhouse.

Canon G5X.ll

For the door, maybe you could use one of those draft preventers under the door. You only have one window? Try taping light-proof material over the window. You won't need ventilation, or is your place central heated/cooled? Sounds like a fun project. Good luck and send up pictures!

I might have pictures somewhere of what I did, but I'm not sure you'll want to go that far! My extra bedroom had one large horizontally sliding window. I cut a sheet of plywood which held a light-tight exhaust fan which took up about half the window. I covered the other half with room darkening window shade material first, then overlapped that with black, rubberized darkroom material. The window shade material would be seen on the outside of the window rather than the black material. I had two half-doors (French doors?) which I mounted on the door frame on the opposite side of the frame from the original door, which stayed in place. I hinged the French doors together. I used foam edging to make the doors as light-tight as I could and had light-tight louvers in one of the doors to let air in which blew across the 7' darkroom sink and out the exhaust fan. The short hall leading up to that bedroom had a door at the end which I closed during darkroom sessions, as well as the bathroom door. I also hung a curtain of darkroom material over the hallway door during sessions. There was minimal light leakage around and under the darkroom door. Did I mention making a hole through the darkroom/bathroom wall to hook up washing machine hoses for running water as well as a drain from the darkroom sink? It was a nice set-up. I've since moved from there and did put everything back to normal.

Sorry I didn't add context to mine! Here goes: #1: looking east out my window, incoming planes heading to Chicago's O'Hare airport, about 15 miles to the west. 30 second exposure #2: just to the north of that was lightning in a bank of clouds. I couldn't hear thunder. I'm kicking myself for not getting a longer lens and concentrate on that since that was going on for a while. That was a 10 second exposure. #3: focus stacking. I should have used a fill light. Tomatoes from my brother's garden. Before taking photos of the incoming planes, I was taking pictures of a spider which had made a web outside the window. That was when I noticed the airplanes! I do take that camera outside from time to time!

Canon EF 100mm macro. Wasp? silhouette

80D with 100mm macro

80D with 50mm macro and/or 17-40.

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Canon G5X; walking the neighborhood

Walking through the 'hood.

I just looked at reviews of that film; doesn't seem like a Saturday afternoon family film!