The week before last, I attended Danny's LF workshop in the Smokies. Being a total LF newbie, I signed up for both the intro to LF and the full week of shooting the Smokies.
We had a small group for the whole thing, five students total. The first week, of course we spent learning to use the LF cameras. There were some lectures, but it was for the most part practical in nature, so it didn't take very long to get a handle on the basics.
The shooting part was the fun part, naturally. We got up early every morning, though most of our sunrises were rained out. The weather was pretty wild; rain one hour, sunshine the next; even so, we found lots of opportunities to shoot. Danny mostly left his toys in the car, and only pulled them out on occassion when he found something that was particularly unique or rare that he wanted to shoot. Danny was very patient, answering a lot of questions, helping with exposure and critiquing my compositions on my groundglass constantly. He let me use some of his lenses quite often as well, getting me addicted to the Nikon 720mm, and even found someone who was interested in selling one(I haven't heard back from him since I got back, so I hope he hasn't changed his mind.)
I got my slides back from the lab Friday evening, and I was very pleased with the results. There were a few shots that I took while Danny was assisting others, some of which I was certain that I had overexposed... but most of them came out looking good also, which I guess means that Danny taught me well
Unfortunately, my lab doesn't do 4x5 color negs, so I haven't gotten the two sheets of NPS that Danny gave me processed yet.
So now I'm addicted to LF, and have no regrets about choosing an Ebony. And I can't wait to get back out and do some more shooting with it, once I get my Quickload holder fixed or replaced.
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