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Welcome and thanks for stopping by. I hope that we each learn something from each other as we go.
First a little about me. I have been taking pictures since I was 9 or 10, when my parents gave me a Kodak 126mm camera and a darkroom set for Christmas. The excitement of taking a picture and then seeing it appear magically on silver-halide paper just got me and held me. Throughout High School I was mentored by one of my professors who loaned me his Pentax K-1000 camera and his years of experience to encourage me in taking pictures and working in the High School darkroom (thanks Professor Gordon Radtke).
In college, I alternately ran the photo department or the darkroom and for the last 2 years of college ran both. Those years of shooting portraits, games, events, graduations, etc honed my ability to shoot and frame. The fact that we had a VERY limited budget taught me to edit in the camera and choose my shots rather than shoot several rolls hoping I got something good. My time in the darkroom taught me that I could have a career as a vampire, as well as how much proper development and editing can improve a picture and make a good shot a GREAT shot.
After I graduated I took the money I received in my graduation cards and bought my first 35mm camera. A Canon AE-1 Program in black, a rare bird indeed. It came with a 50mm lens and a fitted leather case. I was my dream machine (I would have preferred an A-1 but that did not fit in my budget).
Thus started my love affair with photography.
Skip ahead to 2013 through 5 camera bodies, the switch to medium format, then to digital and you find me today with nearly 17 years of operating Mind's Eye Photography here in Eau Claire, WI. It's been tens of thousands of shutter clicks and hours and hours of both chemical and digital darkroom work (my wife says that the chemical darkroom work and the fumes are what made me who I am today :-) ).
I have loved every minute of it!!
If you have read this blog, leave a comment below so that I know you read it. How did you get your start in photography?
First a little about me. I have been taking pictures since I was 9 or 10, when my parents gave me a Kodak 126mm camera and a darkroom set for Christmas. The excitement of taking a picture and then seeing it appear magically on silver-halide paper just got me and held me. Throughout High School I was mentored by one of my professors who loaned me his Pentax K-1000 camera and his years of experience to encourage me in taking pictures and working in the High School darkroom (thanks Professor Gordon Radtke).
In college, I alternately ran the photo department or the darkroom and for the last 2 years of college ran both. Those years of shooting portraits, games, events, graduations, etc honed my ability to shoot and frame. The fact that we had a VERY limited budget taught me to edit in the camera and choose my shots rather than shoot several rolls hoping I got something good. My time in the darkroom taught me that I could have a career as a vampire, as well as how much proper development and editing can improve a picture and make a good shot a GREAT shot.
After I graduated I took the money I received in my graduation cards and bought my first 35mm camera. A Canon AE-1 Program in black, a rare bird indeed. It came with a 50mm lens and a fitted leather case. I was my dream machine (I would have preferred an A-1 but that did not fit in my budget).
Thus started my love affair with photography.
Skip ahead to 2013 through 5 camera bodies, the switch to medium format, then to digital and you find me today with nearly 17 years of operating Mind's Eye Photography here in Eau Claire, WI. It's been tens of thousands of shutter clicks and hours and hours of both chemical and digital darkroom work (my wife says that the chemical darkroom work and the fumes are what made me who I am today :-) ).
I have loved every minute of it!!
If you have read this blog, leave a comment below so that I know you read it. How did you get your start in photography?
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