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Time, I guess, to introduce myself to the community. I've been online for a couple of months but this is my first time on this forum.
I've been an amatuer photographer since I was 7 or 8 when my parents let me start using the old metal 620 (6x7cm) brownie my mother's brother had given her (used), during her senior year of high school (1941). Rediscovered an album of those pics a few years ago and I'm not too modest to say that for what I lacked in exposure control, subject choice and composition were pretty good for a little kid.
Turned pro (photo journalist) in 1981 when I answered a newspaper classified for a reporter/must be able to use a camera. Went to my first paying assignments with a Yashica Mat 124G loaded with Tri-x and a Honeywell Strobonar. I've either been doing or teaching PJ ever since.
Currently, I shoot self-assigned B&W documentary projects on the breaks from teaching PJ and English Lit. Don't own a digigizmo of my own, but use them at school for cost containment. As a teacher it is cool to put a D*** into a kids hands and tell them to shoot until they get something they like without the worry of the film/paper costs. I'm going to reopen our school's wet darkroom this month for a few students (and myself) who are interested in the wet arts.
I shoot/keep a collection of nikons and recently added an RB67 to the kit (going back to those 6X7 roots). Over the years I've tried a lot of things up through 4x5. Planning on public sector defined benefit retirement in 3 years to go to pretty much full time shooting.
I've been an amatuer photographer since I was 7 or 8 when my parents let me start using the old metal 620 (6x7cm) brownie my mother's brother had given her (used), during her senior year of high school (1941). Rediscovered an album of those pics a few years ago and I'm not too modest to say that for what I lacked in exposure control, subject choice and composition were pretty good for a little kid.
Turned pro (photo journalist) in 1981 when I answered a newspaper classified for a reporter/must be able to use a camera. Went to my first paying assignments with a Yashica Mat 124G loaded with Tri-x and a Honeywell Strobonar. I've either been doing or teaching PJ ever since.
Currently, I shoot self-assigned B&W documentary projects on the breaks from teaching PJ and English Lit. Don't own a digigizmo of my own, but use them at school for cost containment. As a teacher it is cool to put a D*** into a kids hands and tell them to shoot until they get something they like without the worry of the film/paper costs. I'm going to reopen our school's wet darkroom this month for a few students (and myself) who are interested in the wet arts.
I shoot/keep a collection of nikons and recently added an RB67 to the kit (going back to those 6X7 roots). Over the years I've tried a lot of things up through 4x5. Planning on public sector defined benefit retirement in 3 years to go to pretty much full time shooting.
