This may date me a little…but when I first started out in photography, digital cameras were just a very cool concept. As they slowly made their depute, they were crazy expensive, but soon became the norm, and film has almost became a lost art. This both saddens me and brings me joy. I have many fond memories of the darkroom, and nothing beats watching the image appear before your eyes. The darkroom is truly a whole other art. If you worked with film much you know that not only do you have to be a wiz at photography, ie fstop, aperture etc. but also at the processing in the darkroom. When I got my first digital camera, I was ecstatic, but a little leery. Now I don’t know what I would do without it!!! The convenience of being able to look and see if i got the image, or if you are squinting is amazing! And, though I still tip my hat to the darkroom talents of film, photoshop also requires a bit of talent!
I remember processing film, then getting out the paints, and painstakingly trying to match the colors and shadows and hi-lights correctly in order to get images like the following. Though it still requires a steady hand, Zoom is amazing, and the time to achieve striking images tike the following is cut in half, easily. Ok, I will stop babbleing about boring tecnical stuff and show you the pictures. After all, that is why you are here, right!?
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