When I was in college (UF) I allowed myself to explore one of my hobbies, which was photography. I actually began back in 1985 and had zero interest in taking pictures of people. But when I got to college in Florida I found that the local photo studio had a huge variety of films and chromes from Kodak and Fujifilm. I made it a point to experiment with these films as I was shoot 35mm SLR. When I got to specialty wedding films I shook my head and asked myself why they existed. Well, if it was a daytime wedding with a white bridal dress they actually made a special film just for pulling out the detail in said white dress. They also made a specialty film for pulling out the detail in black suits and dresses (not just tuxedos). I had forgotten about those special color filsm for pulling out the white/black details until I saw this image by someone I do not know and I love dark images for their shadow detail
During my years down in Gainesville, I took a job that I wasn't looking for a paycheck. I had already had hundreds of hours in a B&W darkroom, if not thousands. What I sought was to learn color printmaking and so they looked at my like a retard and said, "Well, I can't have you working here for free," so they hired me anyway. It started out as a 10 hour/week job and I learned fast and a life of in total darkness where you gain experience with every bruise on your calves wasn't a joke. By the end of the first semester working here I was working 35-45 hours/week because I was good at what I was doing.
When I left the university setting is was on the early stages of digital photography and I held out. I actually put my cameras away until around 2009 when I bought my first DSLR. I took some nice images with it, was stunned by this consumer product (not even prosumer) in the subtle hues it captured in orchid house flowers. But I still felt digital wasn't quite there because I common saw things like dynamic range being limited. Of course these days I shoot for the highlights (think histogram) and recover the shadow detail using better equipment and now I wonder if I can experiment with pictures like the one above.
Jeez, this brings up the other aspect of people so pixel-conscious in terms "how many pixels do you have?" It isn't like you can display them all at once. Not even 8K TV products can capture what is happening in FF cameras these days of prosumer products. But finding something that can authentically display the above image to a pint you can see the shadow detail in the ruffles of her dress just ain't there yet. Even my 5dMkIII with its 22MP can be represented well on a display with 8MP. But the challenge is capturing such beauty above and appreciating not just the content but the technical aspect makes me smile and ...
Challenge Accepted.
During my years down in Gainesville, I took a job that I wasn't looking for a paycheck. I had already had hundreds of hours in a B&W darkroom, if not thousands. What I sought was to learn color printmaking and so they looked at my like a retard and said, "Well, I can't have you working here for free," so they hired me anyway. It started out as a 10 hour/week job and I learned fast and a life of in total darkness where you gain experience with every bruise on your calves wasn't a joke. By the end of the first semester working here I was working 35-45 hours/week because I was good at what I was doing.
When I left the university setting is was on the early stages of digital photography and I held out. I actually put my cameras away until around 2009 when I bought my first DSLR. I took some nice images with it, was stunned by this consumer product (not even prosumer) in the subtle hues it captured in orchid house flowers. But I still felt digital wasn't quite there because I common saw things like dynamic range being limited. Of course these days I shoot for the highlights (think histogram) and recover the shadow detail using better equipment and now I wonder if I can experiment with pictures like the one above.
Jeez, this brings up the other aspect of people so pixel-conscious in terms "how many pixels do you have?" It isn't like you can display them all at once. Not even 8K TV products can capture what is happening in FF cameras these days of prosumer products. But finding something that can authentically display the above image to a pint you can see the shadow detail in the ruffles of her dress just ain't there yet. Even my 5dMkIII with its 22MP can be represented well on a display with 8MP. But the challenge is capturing such beauty above and appreciating not just the content but the technical aspect makes me smile and ...
Challenge Accepted.