doc4x5
02-09-2007, 10:17 AM
I have been a photographer since the 50's when my uncle showed me how to contact print family negatives. Recently I invested in scanners for medium and large format as well as a quality pigment printer capable of 16x20 prints. With those and the new beta CS3 I am on the steep learning curve toward producing decent images. It is a good thing I am a retired person; I have no idea how I functioned when I worked full time.
This is an exciting time to be a photographer. Digital capture is improving all the time but the ability to tilt and shift my view camera remains in the exclusive arena of using film. Photoshop provides a scary amount of control and I save no time over darkroom printing. I stop, go to another negative and then go back to the first. The flow, compared to the darkroom, is obviously different. I really like the ability to work for a couple of hours and then do something else. Perhaps it is my ADHD kicking in.
The whole idea of having a physical "original," the film, is reassuring to someone who has seen computers and hard disks destroy people's work. I do back up everything I do two external hard drives so my chances of personal disaster are lessened but...
I look forward to learning from and perhaps contributing to this community. I have been fortunate to live in the Pacific Northwest for almost 30 years. We have an abundance of natural subjects to photograph. I could spend my entire photographic life in the Columbia Gorge and probably be a happy person.
Eric
This is an exciting time to be a photographer. Digital capture is improving all the time but the ability to tilt and shift my view camera remains in the exclusive arena of using film. Photoshop provides a scary amount of control and I save no time over darkroom printing. I stop, go to another negative and then go back to the first. The flow, compared to the darkroom, is obviously different. I really like the ability to work for a couple of hours and then do something else. Perhaps it is my ADHD kicking in.
The whole idea of having a physical "original," the film, is reassuring to someone who has seen computers and hard disks destroy people's work. I do back up everything I do two external hard drives so my chances of personal disaster are lessened but...
I look forward to learning from and perhaps contributing to this community. I have been fortunate to live in the Pacific Northwest for almost 30 years. We have an abundance of natural subjects to photograph. I could spend my entire photographic life in the Columbia Gorge and probably be a happy person.
Eric