Hello
I am an beginning photographer and have been self taught. I got hooked when i vi sited a local photo gallery (Ken Duncan) here in Sydney, Australia. I have becom e interested in medium format 6x17 photography and since then have made my own 6 17 camera, with an SA90 F8, and set up my darkroom for producing ilfochromes. I shoot velvia and provia. I have just finished my first batch of prints and I am very pleased with the results (sharpness/colour saturation and balance/exposure) . I have learnt so much from here, (thanks to all) at the LF BBS and, lots and l ots of books from the library. My problem is that amongst all the technical lear ning about taking photos and printing them, and the technical aspects of film an d paper (which i have found most interesting) i seem to have a much reduced skil l in taking a good photo (at least what i think is a good one). I seem to be mak ing so many decisions now when i go out to take pics, and with poor results. Bef ore i got really interested in photography I was just taking snapshot 35mm, and looking back at them they seem to be better. I always tried to keep "rules" out of taking pictures but perhaps all the technical side has influenced me into thi nking too much before opening the shutter? The thought and process of LF was the thing i was most interested in when i got started, but has that been my own wor st enemy?? Does anyone have any experiences here??
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