Spent this weekend attending a photography seminar in Tulsa. There is nothing like discovering (again) how much knowledge one doesn’t have about something which is important to them.
In my case, learning the ins and outs of digital photography is the order of the day. I have been somewhat resistant to this, given my primary love of the wet darkroom. There is nothing like printing uninterupted from midnight to sunup in a darkroom with Led Zepplin blaring on the stereo.
Certainly computer manipulation of digital images allows the photographer to do so much more to create images beyond the capabilities of emulsion-based imagery. But, sitting in front of a computer monitor feels too much like work and not enough like the solitary introspective experience which makes the analog world of photography more appealing. The young uns probably don’t get that.
I don’t intend to replace my film photography with the digital stuff entirely. But, the latter does make it easier to finish projects and show other people what I’ve done. This blog serves a function in that endeavor as well.
Meanwhile, hung out with Rager and his gang at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography seminar. That’s him above — Mr. Abraham Lincoln.
