What has it changed with your photography?
Philippe-Georges! My own leaf rustled yesterday as a tree fell in the backyard very close to the house! Ah, life in the woods! No real damage and we're cleaned up again. Good to hear from you!
When I moved in 2011 I no longer had a darkroom.
How did you survive?
Yes if I shoot B&W which I don't. Processing C41 always cost me more than the lab (I do not reuse the chemical for consitency) and yet I can't do better than a good lab as far as developing C41 film. So I only do RA-4 color printing in my darkroom. So when I don't have the darkroom I shoot color slides. I project the slides (I do not scan them).One can always shoot film, develop it in the kitchen and then scan the negatives.
I had two events concur: I retired and relocated, which makes it difficult to say which, if any, of these events may have changed “my photography.”
Moving from Washington, DC to SouthWest Florida has obviously changed what I can easily put in front of the lens. Transitioning from working full-time to retirement has given me some time to catch-up on what’s been going on since the postmodern thing happened— so, I’ve had more time to work on projects that question some fundamental assumptions about the meaning and implications of photography—which I find quite challenging and liberating.
From a more practical standpoint, I no longer have a “full” darkroom. I am able to process films but have not figured out how (or if) I will return to wet printing. It would have been nice had I moved someplace that had nearby darkroom space that I could rent, but that’s not the case here—I’ve checked. I’m tempted to semi-retire and offer to teach at the nearby University assuming they would have a working darkroom. The problem with that is teaching one is not much different from teaching two (which is a full load), and that would eat into my remaining personal time.
That is why I left 4"x5" and switched to 6x9, roll film is much more convenient, cheaper and easier to find.Covid boredom got me to invest in a 4x5 system after mainly shooting medium format Mamiya RB67. I think I unnecessarily over-complicated my life.
I like that. “Shall it be the moths, then? The problem is resolved by Friday, or I unleash them.”It took about half a year to convince the railroad company that there was a problem, and then it took moths for them to solve it.
That is why I left 4"x5" and switched to 6x9, roll film is much more convenient, cheaper and easier to find.
I’ve been in southern kentucky for almost 10 years and still struggle to get out and make images. I prefer to take pictures of people but the locals are far more unfriendly than what I’m used to in Chicago.
Moved from a West Coast city to Vermont's biggest 'city' - 40,000 person cow town is what it is- and now outside Plattsburgh New York across the lake where towns are 3000 or less and corn and trees are more common. And yep, big changes that I am still not making sense of. The suspicion and outright anger of people is a big one. I had noticed in San Francisco the diminishing of street life for a while, but dang, out here in small towns, walking on a street or along a road means you have a giant target on your back. Be prepared to be aggressively confronted and interrogated over what you are doing, camera or not.All going right I will be moving next year for the first time in over 30 years,, from the urban sprawl to a small country town, will let you know.
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