Ken Storch Photo Blog – All Things Photographic, All Thoughts Photographic
Silver-based film photography, traditional wet darkroom, development, and printing
When I turned 54, some lovely friends gave me a birthday card, one of those Hallmark jobs with a photo on the front intended to look “retro”. Suddenly, my skin pricked up, a shock traveled through my bones, and a jolt of memory revisited this scene. I knew this photo. This was my past. A fuzzy memory of my buried two year old self.
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This very morning there was an unexpectedly gray cloud cover when I got up.
While not especially photogenic (from where I stood, visually and emotionally?) it reminded me of another morning sky which I shot from this location.
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At this time (early 2009) digital cameras are everywhere, in cell phones, in point and shoot little cameras, and even casual shooters may be using DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras.
Local and online retailers selling photographic film and darkroom equipment are keeping fewer and fewer offerings in stock. Custom labs are faltering if they still exist in a given market.
It makes sense, once again, to reexamine the future of film, film cameras, black & white printing, and the traditional wet darkroom in the digital era.
Photographers Richard Avedon, known for his trend leading fashion photography work, and Arnold Newman, known for his celebrity portrait work, are interviewed and discussed on National Public Radio. There are some great interviews with, and podcasts about, several famous photographers on NPR (National Public Radio) For your listening pleasure, I’m featuring a few of these…
Photographic proof of ‘alien existence’ in museum! – or – ‘Kids! Take Your Own Alien Photos!’
What is a pixel? How to define ‘pixels’ and ‘megapixels’ in a digital camera image.
What’s all this talk I hear about endangered megapixels?