Denbigh Gabbitas
Member
I have been doing photography for most of my adult life (73) and have never really got the hang of it. Each time I think I have done something nice I take a second look and generally think it doesn't look so good any more. Yeah, there are some sparks from time to time, buit mostly they are luck, so I will keep on trying.
If you think I am going to expose myself to ridicule here, you have another think coming. I am here to watch mostly - and offer more or less useless advice on things I know everything useless about.
I have always liked the technicallity of photography, I used to make up the potions in the Ilford, Agfa, Kodak books and produce strange 'wrong' pictures. I know the joys of developing a film in the tropics and having all the emulsion slide off the backing as I ran my fingers down to squegee off the excess. I started tinkering with colour on film and then digital arrived and made it all look so wasteful of time and energy trying to remove colour casts etc. So, once I get stuck into the new stuff, I find the minefield of colour management... ohhh. Yeah, I have always been dead unlucky, I could have done something useful with my life instead of photography for which I have no flair at all.
I expect you can tell, from the funny way I write colour, that I am that sinister bad-guy from all the US films - an Englishman! I like tea and straight malt whiskey, but not together.
And, to quote Forrest Gump: "that's all I have to say about that".
If you think I am going to expose myself to ridicule here, you have another think coming. I am here to watch mostly - and offer more or less useless advice on things I know everything useless about.
I have always liked the technicallity of photography, I used to make up the potions in the Ilford, Agfa, Kodak books and produce strange 'wrong' pictures. I know the joys of developing a film in the tropics and having all the emulsion slide off the backing as I ran my fingers down to squegee off the excess. I started tinkering with colour on film and then digital arrived and made it all look so wasteful of time and energy trying to remove colour casts etc. So, once I get stuck into the new stuff, I find the minefield of colour management... ohhh. Yeah, I have always been dead unlucky, I could have done something useful with my life instead of photography for which I have no flair at all.
I expect you can tell, from the funny way I write colour, that I am that sinister bad-guy from all the US films - an Englishman! I like tea and straight malt whiskey, but not together.
And, to quote Forrest Gump: "that's all I have to say about that".