Random ramblings about photography - #1
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<html> <p>My photographic journey is quite long (everything is relative - right?). First camera that I used consciously was an Russian Zenith (I was around 15 at this time). Earlier there were only accidents when I occasionally used my father's camera and I produced something interesting like this...</p> <p><img src="http://overlay.no-ip.org/pub/steemit/1991_fuji_34_sel.jpg"/></p> <p>[Cracow ~1991]</p> <p>...but generally It was just something that was happening rarely - negative film was quite expensive and as a child I wasn't permitted to play with it.</p> <p>Continuing on conscious effort - pictures were pretty bad, with small exceptions. I would say, results where I was trying were much worse than the other way around.</p> <p>Without darkroom and knowing what exactly is happening (how to properly expose) I was fairly blind, looking only to document what was interesting at that time. Enough fun was to take just average pictures, requiring no skill, no understanding of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_latitude">exposure latitude</a> and other aspects of imaging (I'm talking about technical stuff only, photographic language was not even on my thought horizon). </p> <p>Below you can see picture I made in 1998 using Zenith camera, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_(lens_brand)">50mm Helios lens</a> and Kodak Gold 100 negative film. When I saw first printout from photo lab It was very disappointing, there were no sky at all, just white plain stain instead. I didn't know at that time, that negative film is much better than printout they did. Negative film has wide dynamic range (it varies from 8 to 12 EV -you can read about dynamic range <a href="http://www.techradar.com/how-to/photography-video-capture/cameras/dynamic-range-in-photography-how-to-capture-all-the-tones-in-a-scene-1320985">here</a>).</p> <p>5 years ago I bought film scanner, so I recovered what was lost.</p> <p><img src="http://overlay.no-ip.org/pub/steemit/ScanImage02remastered.jpg"/><br> <br> [Cracow/Poland around 1998 ]</p> <p>My first attempts were fairly naive (landscapes, places without context). There are some photo geniuses, who organically understands what they see or do things right - solely relying on instincts, but I believe It wasn't me. </p> <p><br></p> <p><img src="http://overlay.no-ip.org/pub/steemit/1991_06_krakow.jpg"/></p> <p>[Me - Cracow ~1991, I asked my sister to take this picture]</p> <p>From time perspective I can say, I't wasn't worthless effort. Photographing of your own life you can give you interesting perspective. Even looking at picture above, I know that I didn't change much, sometimes I walk near edge of sidewalk trying not to fall (apart). Circumstances change, people almost never.</p> <p>Enough about me, what about your experiences and thoughts?</p> <p><br></p> </html>