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New composite
A girl, holding up her white dress by the shoreline. The model was photographed in the street at Edinburgh (as you do). The background is a rather stormy day (at Whitby of course!).
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Square Format
I’ve heard people decry the use of the square format – in fact one of my very long standing friends in the world of photography positively hates anything SQUARE and in particular anything with the subject in the centre or with symmetry. She and I are pretty much clones of each other except in this one detail…I quite like the square format. The square format was pretty common when I first learned photography back in…well, never mind when. Medium format cameras often took 6×6 cm negatives (we called ’em two and a quarter square back then). Some of the more “arty” members of the Exhibition circuit currently compose exclusively in…
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Expert processing the traditional way
I was brought up processing pictures in the darkroom – and still remember the excitement of producing a print in the traditional way – though was never what you might call skilled in interpreting a picture, in those days, in the way I would aim to do now, in the digital era. For that reason, I was mightily impressed by an article that was brought to my attention this morning by a colleague in the L&CPU. The link shows iconic pictures that have been processed by Pablo Inirio, in the darkroom, a before and after shot with his processing “recipe”. It’s well worth a look – especially for those determined few who insist that…
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