Hello all,
I've just joined this site so want to say hello. I live in north Wales (UK) and I'm very much the "wrong side" of 60! I've been a photo enthusiast since I was (about) 10 so I've seen a lot of changes! From the almost universal use of rollfilm (even by amateurs) in those days through the domination of 35mm and now through to digital, which I now embrace with a D300 and B9180 printer (which is what brought me to this forum in the first place).
I still have my darkroom and its enlarger, Jobo rotary and Nova deep slot processors - it's gathering dust, together with my brace of Olympus OM's and Bronica ETRSi, but I can't bear the thought of parting with them! Having said that, my D300 and B9180 can produce 13x19 prints of a quality that's subjectively more than equal to anything I got with the Bronica.
I suppose coming from a "film" background I'm rather agin some of the more exaggerated efforts I see done with Photoshop! I'll allow myself a little fiddle with curves and gamma, maybe the digital equivalent of dodging, shading and burning but I believe in preserving the original scene which is what makes one take the picture in the first place! Am I in a minority?
Best wishes
John
Happy St David's Day (tomorrow) to any fellow Welsh folk who are looking in!