NancyP
18-Dec-2013, 09:19
LF photography is on my bucket list.
I am interested in learning and using movements, primarily in landscape photography, with attention to cliffs as well as flat scenes. As a teen in the late 1960s, I started serious photography with an all manual 35mm SLR, my beloved Mamiya-Sekor DTL 1000, and did all my own darkroom work, B&W of course. After college, I had a half-time medical research tech, half-time darkroom/ photo/ graphics tech for the anatomy department at my hometown's medical school. Then - large hiatus - went to medical school myself, then residency, where I saw the waning days of professional medical photography - I took a pathology specimen I was working on to the photography department for a book cover illustration, 4x5 macro camera B&W. Wow! Then I became a faculty member in a different medical school's department of Pathology, and my for-pleasure photography snoozed throughout the dawn of digital. Four years ago I went from merely photographing pathology specimens at work to shooting for my own pleasure, and have been active in nature photography (birds, macro, landscape) using small format DSLR.
I have never had and do not have a LF camera. That's why I am hanging out here, reading, figuring out what I will need in a basic set-up (beyond box with pinhole). Soon enough I will buy something and start floundering. I have been studying Stroebel's View Camera Technique, Adams 3 part Camera-Negative-Print series, Jack Dykinga LF Landscape Photography. I plan to start with B&W because 1. more control, and cheaper failures! Fail often, fail BETTER! 2. I can pick up developing and contact printing easily enough (like riding a bike, you never forget?) 3. I have a waterbath for temperature control, and access to no-longer-functional, but still properly dark, darkrooms at work.
I am interested in learning and using movements, primarily in landscape photography, with attention to cliffs as well as flat scenes. As a teen in the late 1960s, I started serious photography with an all manual 35mm SLR, my beloved Mamiya-Sekor DTL 1000, and did all my own darkroom work, B&W of course. After college, I had a half-time medical research tech, half-time darkroom/ photo/ graphics tech for the anatomy department at my hometown's medical school. Then - large hiatus - went to medical school myself, then residency, where I saw the waning days of professional medical photography - I took a pathology specimen I was working on to the photography department for a book cover illustration, 4x5 macro camera B&W. Wow! Then I became a faculty member in a different medical school's department of Pathology, and my for-pleasure photography snoozed throughout the dawn of digital. Four years ago I went from merely photographing pathology specimens at work to shooting for my own pleasure, and have been active in nature photography (birds, macro, landscape) using small format DSLR.
I have never had and do not have a LF camera. That's why I am hanging out here, reading, figuring out what I will need in a basic set-up (beyond box with pinhole). Soon enough I will buy something and start floundering. I have been studying Stroebel's View Camera Technique, Adams 3 part Camera-Negative-Print series, Jack Dykinga LF Landscape Photography. I plan to start with B&W because 1. more control, and cheaper failures! Fail often, fail BETTER! 2. I can pick up developing and contact printing easily enough (like riding a bike, you never forget?) 3. I have a waterbath for temperature control, and access to no-longer-functional, but still properly dark, darkrooms at work.