Film and paper processing chemistry

DREW WILEY · Monday at 12:17 PM

My presence on Photrio is intermittent. Perhaps multiple times a day, but only briefly. Let's just say I don't make my living with a computer anymore, and even when I did, I kept up a lot of manual tasks alongside it to keep my fingers and eyes from getting ruined.

cliveh · Monday at 12:58 PM

Well done Matt and Chckroast, an excellent response.

dcy · Monday at 1:13 PM

DREW WILEY said:
The most tedious unhealthy kind of work is sitting on one's aching ass all day and straining your eyes punching computer buttons. Far worse than finish carpentry. As a purchasing agent, I had to do an awful lot of that; even had my own private server plus shared software writer. But I jockeyed my work role so that I could get daily hands-on breaks with my own merchandise.

I am an astronomer. My work is overwhelmingly at a computer. While my work is not at all tedious, it is certainly unhealthy in some ways. One of the reasons I chose photography as a hobby is that it gets me away from the computer, out of the house, and on my feet. There are only so many times you can take a photo of the same bowl of fruit in the living room, and you cannot do photography from a moving car. So I have to go somewhere outside and actually walk. I find that that helps with my physical and mental health.

Don_ih · Monday at 9:15 PM

dcy said:
you cannot do photography from a moving car

Sure you can! A bit more risky if you're the one driving, But as a passenger

Joel Meyerowitz 1967 Greece:

Alex Benjamin · Monday at 9:30 PM

Don_ih said:
Sure you can! A bit more risky if you're the one driving, But as a passenger

Joel Meyerowitz 1967 Greece:

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Not to mention Danny Lyon:

"But I was in Wisconsin when these motorcycles pass us—I see them behind us, and Skip’s driving, and I start yelling, “Keep up with them!” I’m shooting through the front window with a 105mm lens, and I make this picture called Route 12, Wisconsin, which I think the British Museum later declared as a masterpiece of photography. I was twenty years old. It’s a pretty good picture. It’s perfectly arranged. It’s done through the front window of a moving car, and it’s very geometrical. That’s the cover of The Bikeriders."

GregY · Monday at 9:51 PM

Douglas Kent Hall. "Passing Through"

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