Sun-Sets
..and the unusual -
everyone likes them.
Everyone tries them.
Lots of advice from 'experienced' photographers.
Don't mind!
Try!
Try!
Try!
Had been told, you can not have the sun directly into your lens?
Nonsense.
Of course you get lots happening here.
Whatch the sunstars and reflections in your finder and unite them in the reflection beam on the water, for one example...
spread them out to make a nice pattern.
Trying does not cost anything with digital medium.
With 35mm film, you had to be really seasoned to take good shots...years of costly experience.
Now - in an instant you can see the result and correct it, delete it, or finetune it to your likings.
That is the most important thing about digital photography compared to Digital.
I started taking pictures with the age of 11 and won my first prize with 13.
Photography was extremely expensive and consumed all my allowance...
You bought a 36 roll, because each frame was less expensive than buying a 24 roll.
One weekend you shot, carefully selected, 5 pictures, a week later another 6, 2 weekends weather was not good, after 7 weeks you brought it to the village photograph "Susemihl" in Neuhaus am Schliersee in Southern Bavaria where I grew up, got them back after some days, if you wanted to spend the extra money you ordered a "Kontakt-Abzug" which showed you the 38 negatives on one sheet....
So, 2, 3, 6 photos were worth spending the money, to enlarge them to 4x6 or 7x5, very expensive, a choice of matte or glossy was given, as well as the choice having the borders straight or fancy shaped, forgot the name of the procedure, was fashion for quite a while...
.."Buetten" was the name I forgot...
The cost was high, and many times you did not even recall the first pictures when you got the roll back.
This, IMO, is the main difference, the INSTANT feedback you get with digital.
I sometimes take a 35mm camera with me, when I am out shooting, similar experience, get it back after some time only, when I had an opportunity to leave them at Costco...
When I was 15, my grandma gave me an enlarger she smuggeled from Eastern Germany, and I had my own "Dunkelkammer" (darkroom). The only thing I really liked seeing the photos coming alive after some time, when you was gently moving them in the "Entwickler" - developer probably in English. Waiting for the moment, when the tones were about right (I never got into that complicated process of developing color pictures, B&W only. It was 1957!
Enough, I was roaming away, back to the (colorfulllll) sunsets!
everyone likes them.
Everyone tries them.
Lots of advice from 'experienced' photographers.
Don't mind!
Try!
Try!
Try!
Had been told, you can not have the sun directly into your lens?
Nonsense.
Of course you get lots happening here.
Whatch the sunstars and reflections in your finder and unite them in the reflection beam on the water, for one example...
spread them out to make a nice pattern.
Trying does not cost anything with digital medium.
With 35mm film, you had to be really seasoned to take good shots...years of costly experience.
Now - in an instant you can see the result and correct it, delete it, or finetune it to your likings.
That is the most important thing about digital photography compared to Digital.
I started taking pictures with the age of 11 and won my first prize with 13.
Photography was extremely expensive and consumed all my allowance...
You bought a 36 roll, because each frame was less expensive than buying a 24 roll.
One weekend you shot, carefully selected, 5 pictures, a week later another 6, 2 weekends weather was not good, after 7 weeks you brought it to the village photograph "Susemihl" in Neuhaus am Schliersee in Southern Bavaria where I grew up, got them back after some days, if you wanted to spend the extra money you ordered a "Kontakt-Abzug" which showed you the 38 negatives on one sheet....
So, 2, 3, 6 photos were worth spending the money, to enlarge them to 4x6 or 7x5, very expensive, a choice of matte or glossy was given, as well as the choice having the borders straight or fancy shaped, forgot the name of the procedure, was fashion for quite a while...
.."Buetten" was the name I forgot...
The cost was high, and many times you did not even recall the first pictures when you got the roll back.
This, IMO, is the main difference, the INSTANT feedback you get with digital.
I sometimes take a 35mm camera with me, when I am out shooting, similar experience, get it back after some time only, when I had an opportunity to leave them at Costco...
When I was 15, my grandma gave me an enlarger she smuggeled from Eastern Germany, and I had my own "Dunkelkammer" (darkroom). The only thing I really liked seeing the photos coming alive after some time, when you was gently moving them in the "Entwickler" - developer probably in English. Waiting for the moment, when the tones were about right (I never got into that complicated process of developing color pictures, B&W only. It was 1957!
Enough, I was roaming away, back to the (colorfulllll) sunsets!
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