Sometimes, I miss the hidden advantages of film in these days of digital perfection. Digital has brought many advantages to photography. Today’s cameras can work faster, are more accurate with metering and focus, and can show me the image being recorded as I’m photographing. I can eliminate mistakes and avoid errors before I’ve pressed the…
And I thought I had it all figured out. I think I’m going to go back to shooting film. I have always kept my toe in it; I still have my darkroom, processing tanks, and enlarger. I think I might make more of an effort to shoot two or three rolls a month and see…
This is a new image from my large-format portrait project. I used an 8×10 Deardorff view camera and sensitized paper to make this image of Stephanie. We popped over to Lake Katherin to make this image. It’s such a great outdoor space. Here’s the beast. It’s a heavy one to carry, and the tripod alone…
Still rockin’ the darkroom. It looks like I’ve got some work to do tonight—time for some good tunes and get the timer ticking. This load took a little longer than one night. I have too many film types to get it all done, but I did get the five rolls of 35mm done, and that’s…
Look it up – circa 1998. How times have changed… I wonder if the grease is still the same?
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The image below was from my first photography class, the first roll of film I shot, and was the first print I brought out of the darkroom. George Strimbu, my dearly loved professor, looked at the image still wet in the tray and asked, “Have you ever thought of a career in photography?” Thus began…
