There is nothing like watching your work come to life right before your eyes when developing your photos in your own darkroom, which is becoming a lost art due to the ever popular digital cameras and photograph software.
There is a lot more work involved when developing your own pictures in a darkroom. Setting up a darkroom requires blacking out all light from all doors and windows (so as not to expose your film) and Read more…
Technological progress has affected photography much as it has everything else, moving photography from the hands of an elite few into the hands of the common man. Three developments have affected this transition in the largest ways, instant film, digital photography, and computer photo programs.
Instant film also known as Polariod film enabled photographs to instantly develop without the aid of a dark room. Instant film went on sale to the public in the fall Read more…
Many people just enjoy taking pictures. Other people actually work in studios, capturing a person or their families best moments on camera. A transition from a casual photographer to a hobbyist is not hard to get to. If you just want to do something that you love doing on the side, then you can. Some people may just want to take pictures as a hobby, and not an everyday thing. Since you probably will already know all the basics and everything else there is to know about photography, your interest may have Read more…
As anyone who has been a photographer for very long will tell you, there are times when black and white is more appropriate for a picture than color. Black and white photography offers more options in terms of contrast and using various filters for more dramatic effects. However, there are no hard and fast rules. Each photographer should have his or her own approach to a subject.
Landscapes can be great subjects to shoot in black and white, bringing into focus the forms, shapes, and adding dimension to the subject. Though not an absolute, color tends to be a better Read more…