Who am !? No one really. Just a guy with a computer, some time and a little passion for what I do, or intend to do, in life. A student of society, and an outlook that there may very well be some good in what we do with our time here on this wonderful planet we all call home.
I was a photography major in colleg… Read More
Who am !? No one really. Just a guy with a computer, some time and a little passion for what I do, or intend to do, in life. A student of society, and an outlook that there may very well be some good in what we do with our time here on this wonderful planet we all call home.
I was a photography major in college, but to be honest I did not intend to go to school to get a degree, it just kinda happened out of boredom really. I really enjoyed photography at the time and thought I would expand on that passion by learning a little extra, so I enrolled and four years later I was given a degree. Did schooling help? Yes, does what I learned in school apply to what I do now? I would say yes. Even though my work is created digitally now, and what was once a darkroom has been replaced by a computer, the aspects that I learned in the dark ages of film still do apply, for the most part.
No longer do I spend hours in a red lighted room, coaxing a image out of some silver halide, now I spend it at the comfort of my desk coaxing it out of pixels. The smell of chemicals has been replaced with that of coffee and cigerettes. But what has remained the same is the amount of time I spend on some images getting them to look the way that I saw them, and every now and then I get that photo that needs very little in the way of manipulation. Maybe a little boost in contrast or saturation, but that is it.
Like developing negatives in a tank, so Photoshop has become the new tank for my digital negatives, the positive result that they are developed correctly every time. Now I can see what could not be seen going on in that wondeful little siver tank of a time long past. Yes some of the anticipation and excitement of it all has been left behind in that little tank, and I do miss the feeling that I used to get when I took that roll out to “see” if I got the shots I wanted. The let down if I was a little absent minded with what I was doing while the negatives were in their life giving bath of chemical soup.
Digital photo work has both given me a new appreciation for photography and at the same time a distain for the nasty cycle of camera upgrades. What was once an all manual experience has been replaced by the click of the mouse or the stroke of a key. But, the end result is what I would hope we are all after, a wonderfull photo of a moment in time. Read Less
