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I'm somone who makes images. Came across this site recently and thought I might stop by, say "hi" and maybe read a few posts.
You can see some of my work at www.silverbasedstories.com. Plan to have a new article up later tonight about several pinhole cameras.
Yes, I mostly shoot film these days; always for my personal work and still for a good deal of paid work. I do, however, use digital; mostly for output, making negatives for alt process printing, and sharing images on the web. I do shoot some work digitaly as that's the way the world works.
I see cameras as tools and use what's available to do what it is I want. That said, there's nothing I enjoy more than using a rangefinder and some Tri-X, which I later splash around in diluted D76. I admit, I rarely print silver these days and most things are scanned for later output. I will say for my personal work I use Photoshop no differently than if printing - I don't like manipulations.
My background is a mix of fine art and technical and even though I love knowing all about how stuff works I'm far more concerned with images and how I "feel" about them rather than how they were made. I care far more about shooting than what follows in the darkroom.
This is a great time to be making images as the mix of technologies is very exciting. Certainly it's somewhat of a nerve wracking time as many of the products we rely on are quickly facing extinction. Some will need to adapt or die; but if Kodak shuts down that Tri-X line I may be a guest at my own funeral!
Stephen
PS - I must add it's refreshing to find a site dedicated to taditional and alternative image making that allows users to show nudes and figure studies. I find many otherwise good sites that have a very strict no nude policy and in a fine art context it's so childish and puritanical. Of course there's not a need for hard-core porn on a photo site, but the figure has, and always will be, a genre in artistic endeavors.
You can see some of my work at www.silverbasedstories.com. Plan to have a new article up later tonight about several pinhole cameras.
Yes, I mostly shoot film these days; always for my personal work and still for a good deal of paid work. I do, however, use digital; mostly for output, making negatives for alt process printing, and sharing images on the web. I do shoot some work digitaly as that's the way the world works.
I see cameras as tools and use what's available to do what it is I want. That said, there's nothing I enjoy more than using a rangefinder and some Tri-X, which I later splash around in diluted D76. I admit, I rarely print silver these days and most things are scanned for later output. I will say for my personal work I use Photoshop no differently than if printing - I don't like manipulations.
My background is a mix of fine art and technical and even though I love knowing all about how stuff works I'm far more concerned with images and how I "feel" about them rather than how they were made. I care far more about shooting than what follows in the darkroom.
This is a great time to be making images as the mix of technologies is very exciting. Certainly it's somewhat of a nerve wracking time as many of the products we rely on are quickly facing extinction. Some will need to adapt or die; but if Kodak shuts down that Tri-X line I may be a guest at my own funeral!
Stephen
PS - I must add it's refreshing to find a site dedicated to taditional and alternative image making that allows users to show nudes and figure studies. I find many otherwise good sites that have a very strict no nude policy and in a fine art context it's so childish and puritanical. Of course there's not a need for hard-core porn on a photo site, but the figure has, and always will be, a genre in artistic endeavors.
