mariacallas
Bluelight Crew
Jaymie...lovely pictures! i'm reminded of my days in the darkroom ...I spent 90% of my junior year in the freaking darkroom! Took months of practice, and countless packs of photopaper, ruined clothes and smelling like developer before I was able to finally manipulate my black and whites to look as best as I wanted them to! My thesis was a set of photographs of my mom painting , which took a dozen rolls of film and two months of hard work.
Shutterbug thank you :D
While I do believe that its not the equipment but the artist that makes good pictures (using the same analogy that it doesnt take an expensive studio for a talented musician to create good music ) I am in awe of technology nowadays and I'm glad I sort of worked my way up the pole so to speak. Started with a camera where I had to calculate my aperture and shutter speed like clockwork , developing my own film with often disastrous results, going thru several cheap (and i mean CHEAP I never really had a good automatic camera lol ) automatics after that and so getting my first digital camera was definitely an awesome experience
I guess I was able to appreciate it a lot MORE than if I had been gifted with it earlier, you get what I'm saying? I'll be using it for a few more years and maybe purchase one of those cameras posted here (very professional looking and Im sure to ask for bluelighters advice on this one!)
To those who prefer film to digital, I'd have to say I respectfully disagree: I'm definitely all for digital pictures. I've worked with film for a good part of my life and I just absolutely ADORE the convenience of taking digital pictures...I love being able to see what I've taken the instant I take it. And like what Chrissie said...a good picture is still a work of art, retouched or not.
The possibilities are ENDLESS with cameras now, even for those who pine for the good old days of black and white: I've taken quite a few b&w pictures with my digital camera that are just as arresting as those taken with my Pentax.
Next stop: A nice videocamera. I have a hitachi hi-8 that i used almost a decade ago...sigh...HOW ANCIENT!!! lol.
Shutterbug thank you :D
While I do believe that its not the equipment but the artist that makes good pictures (using the same analogy that it doesnt take an expensive studio for a talented musician to create good music ) I am in awe of technology nowadays and I'm glad I sort of worked my way up the pole so to speak. Started with a camera where I had to calculate my aperture and shutter speed like clockwork , developing my own film with often disastrous results, going thru several cheap (and i mean CHEAP I never really had a good automatic camera lol ) automatics after that and so getting my first digital camera was definitely an awesome experience
I guess I was able to appreciate it a lot MORE than if I had been gifted with it earlier, you get what I'm saying? I'll be using it for a few more years and maybe purchase one of those cameras posted here (very professional looking and Im sure to ask for bluelighters advice on this one!)To those who prefer film to digital, I'd have to say I respectfully disagree: I'm definitely all for digital pictures. I've worked with film for a good part of my life and I just absolutely ADORE the convenience of taking digital pictures...I love being able to see what I've taken the instant I take it. And like what Chrissie said...a good picture is still a work of art, retouched or not.
The possibilities are ENDLESS with cameras now, even for those who pine for the good old days of black and white: I've taken quite a few b&w pictures with my digital camera that are just as arresting as those taken with my Pentax.
Next stop: A nice videocamera. I have a hitachi hi-8 that i used almost a decade ago...sigh...HOW ANCIENT!!! lol.
