Michael Collins
New member
Hello all,
I followed a Chamonix thread to this site and read an excellent review of the 8x10. So I decided to register here.
I lived in Santa Cruz Ca. from 69 to 89 and became enamored with the whole Group f64 philosophy. I started shooting 4x5 in 79,built my own darkroom and began developing and making contact prints. A few years later I married, sold off all my equipment and moved up here to Oregon with my job. I never forgot photography and 19 years later I’m retired and back into LF but this time with an 8x10. Of course I built another darkroom.
All I knew about photography was from what I read in books. The Adams series was read and reread. The Internet is invaluable to me now. I lurk at sites like this one where theirs so much free information and which allows me to find the answers to questions that used to plague me for weeks.
If you spend enough time reading at these kinds of sites it can even begin to warp your photographic philosophy. Now thanks to Jim Galli I hunger for swirls, soft focus and world class bokah.
Weston would be turning over in his grave.
I followed a Chamonix thread to this site and read an excellent review of the 8x10. So I decided to register here.
I lived in Santa Cruz Ca. from 69 to 89 and became enamored with the whole Group f64 philosophy. I started shooting 4x5 in 79,built my own darkroom and began developing and making contact prints. A few years later I married, sold off all my equipment and moved up here to Oregon with my job. I never forgot photography and 19 years later I’m retired and back into LF but this time with an 8x10. Of course I built another darkroom.
All I knew about photography was from what I read in books. The Adams series was read and reread. The Internet is invaluable to me now. I lurk at sites like this one where theirs so much free information and which allows me to find the answers to questions that used to plague me for weeks.
If you spend enough time reading at these kinds of sites it can even begin to warp your photographic philosophy. Now thanks to Jim Galli I hunger for swirls, soft focus and world class bokah.
Weston would be turning over in his grave.
