Hello everyone,
I've been browsing this website and forum for a while now and now decided to register.
I greatly appreciate the wealth of information and overall style of discussion here and finally decided to participate.
I'm an amateur and had a break from photography for about 20 years due to lack of a proper wet darkroom and time issues.
Now, that digital cameras became affordable and resonably good, though the really good ones are still insanely expensive,
I decided to pick up my old love photography (actually in my young days I was flirting with the idea of becoming a pro)
and go digital.
Up to 20 years ago I was doing film images with a Nikon FE, 28 mm, 80 mm, 135 mm and a 300 mm lens but sold all the analogue equipment in the end.
I developed everything b/w and in the end did color prints using a Wallner color measurment system and a selfmade temperature box with a Drum.
I still own an old Mamiya Press with a 50 mm lens, but I hardly used it.
For my re-entering the world of photography I bought a Canon Powershot G11 as a learning tool and decision finder.
maybe in 1 or 2 years I want to buy something better, either a high-end 35 mm like the Leica M system or a Digital Midformat System - not sure yet what to buy - I'll take my time for this decision which is connected to the redeveloping of my photographic identity.
For introducting myself into this forum I thought I'd just start with these images I made with the G11 in December 2009
in the harbor of Hamburg, Germany about a week or two after I bought the camera.
The images were developed with Capture One.
Don't have mercy because I'm an amateur - I have an interest in improving - technically and artistically and want to
work towards an exhibition on the long run.
Thank you
~Chris
"Couple At Overseas Bridge"
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"Iron Structures"
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"Yet Another Harbor Composition"
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"Red Ship Docking"
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"Cranes'n Docks"
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"Dark Waters"
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