Hi! Im new here. Im Meg. Im from maine, im 15.
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It seems pretty much everyone has a phone these days and the cameras in them are pretty good for what they are (plastic LOL). One of my first cameras had a high end Karl Zeiss wide angel lens which was excellent, (many phones have a wide lens) and it was paired with a camera that had no hot shoe for the flash, so I learned to read light values with my eye in order to get the exposures right, with the shutter speed, film speed, and f-stop. Back then film was 80 speed and then 100; 200 or 400 ASA did not even exist yet. I bought the camera on sale at the photo lab where I secured my first lab job after being introduced to photography more in depth in college where I was studying design arts (having been artistically oriented most of my life). I'd bought a Canon camera while in college but I did not like it. My first digital camera was a Canon, also 
After falling in love with doing dark room work, I knew I did not want to do anything else, and I started my first lab job on the day of my 21st birthday, which I always considered a gift from the Spirit of the universe (since I was not a believer in those days). Almost fifty years later I am still doing it, not in a dark room, but printing/colour correcting files before they are printed, and scanning negs and slides to our hard drive so they can be mailed to our clients/customers/amateur and professional photographers... and I still love doing it. (I have only worked in three different labs in all that time. I have been at my current job since 1982!) These days I am only working three days a week and six hours days, but at my age that's perfect, and in today's economy I sure do appreciate the extra funds, and everyone loves my work for the most part, since although what I do looks very easy, not many can do it with the consistency that I can, and even my boss says he could not do it (colour correct hundreds or even thousands of files a day).
Now I correct the files on a monitor that I keep balanced to our printing machine and papers, but when I first learned I had to read the negative with my eye, and there was no back printer to record the filtration data, then, either, but I was pretty good at remembering every single correction I made. I could not do that today.
Any who, if you have your work flat and photograph it under even lighting conditions (not bright sunlight or in shadows) you should be able to get a decent enough exposure that you could maybe enhance a bit if necessary, with filters that editing apps provide. You could even crop it if needed... and if it still looks crap, and you post it, I can take it into photoshop on my laptop and do some more work with it to make it look better for you, if you want
After falling in love with doing dark room work, I knew I did not want to do anything else, and I started my first lab job on the day of my 21st birthday, which I always considered a gift from the Spirit of the universe (since I was not a believer in those days). Almost fifty years later I am still doing it, not in a dark room, but printing/colour correcting files before they are printed, and scanning negs and slides to our hard drive so they can be mailed to our clients/customers/amateur and professional photographers... and I still love doing it. (I have only worked in three different labs in all that time. I have been at my current job since 1982!) These days I am only working three days a week and six hours days, but at my age that's perfect, and in today's economy I sure do appreciate the extra funds, and everyone loves my work for the most part, since although what I do looks very easy, not many can do it with the consistency that I can, and even my boss says he could not do it (colour correct hundreds or even thousands of files a day).
Now I correct the files on a monitor that I keep balanced to our printing machine and papers, but when I first learned I had to read the negative with my eye, and there was no back printer to record the filtration data, then, either, but I was pretty good at remembering every single correction I made. I could not do that today.
Any who, if you have your work flat and photograph it under even lighting conditions (not bright sunlight or in shadows) you should be able to get a decent enough exposure that you could maybe enhance a bit if necessary, with filters that editing apps provide. You could even crop it if needed... and if it still looks crap, and you post it, I can take it into photoshop on my laptop and do some more work with it to make it look better for you, if you want
Howdy,
I'm not exactly your age because of this genetic lottery....I'm supposed to be a descendant of Peter Pan but instead of not getting any older physically I only am emotionally not getting any maturity.
So when people see me they think that I'm a crazy and grumpy old man. Oh well....welcome aboard anyway.
And up in Main you guys have some AWESOME foods like seafood (lobsters, crab, Tuna, cod, clams, and etc)
I like seafood....just for the halibut.
And then the blueberries and cranberries....yum yum.
And yes, I'm a recovering chef that is having issues with the first step in the 12 step program.
I'm not exactly your age because of this genetic lottery....I'm supposed to be a descendant of Peter Pan but instead of not getting any older physically I only am emotionally not getting any maturity.
So when people see me they think that I'm a crazy and grumpy old man. Oh well....welcome aboard anyway.
And up in Main you guys have some AWESOME foods like seafood (lobsters, crab, Tuna, cod, clams, and etc)
I like seafood....just for the halibut.
And then the blueberries and cranberries....yum yum.
And yes, I'm a recovering chef that is having issues with the first step in the 12 step program.
It seems pretty much everyone has a phone these days and the cameras in them are pretty good for what they are (plastic LOL). One of my first cameras had a high end Karl Zeiss wide angel lens which was excellent, (many phones have a wide lens) and it was paired with a camera that had no hot shoe for the flash, so I learned to read light values with my eye in order to get the exposures right, with the shutter speed, film speed, and f-stop. Back then film was 80 speed and then 100; 200 or 400 ASA did not even exist yet. I bought the camera on sale at the photo lab where I secured my first lab job after being introduced to photography more in depth in college where I was studying design arts (having been artistically oriented most of my life). I'd bought a Canon camera while in college but I did not like it. My first digital camera was a Canon, also
After falling in love with doing dark room work, I knew I did not want to do anything else, and I started my first lab job on the day of my 21st birthday, which I always considered a gift from the Spirit of the universe (since I was not a believer in those days). Almost fifty years later I am still doing it, not in a dark room, but printing/colour correcting files before they are printed, and scanning negs and slides to our hard drive so they can be mailed to our clients/customers/amateur and professional photographers... and I still love doing it. (I have only worked in three different labs in all that time. I have been at my current job since 1982!) These days I am only working three days a week and six hours days, but at my age that's perfect, and in today's economy I sure do appreciate the extra funds, and everyone loves my work for the most part, since although what I do looks very easy, not many can do it with the consistency that I can, and even my boss says he could not do it (colour correct hundreds or even thousands of files a day).
Now I correct the files on a monitor that I keep balanced to our printing machine and papers, but when I first learned I had to read the negative with my eye, and there was no back printer to record the filtration data, then, either, but I was pretty good at remembering every single correction I made. I could not do that today.
Any who, if you have your work flat and photograph it under even lighting conditions (not bright sunlight or in shadows) you should be able to get a decent enough exposure that you could maybe enhance a bit if necessary, with filters that editing apps provide. You could even crop it if needed... and if it still looks crap, and you post it, I can take it into photoshop on my laptop and do some more work with it to make it look better for you, if you want
After falling in love with doing dark room work, I knew I did not want to do anything else, and I started my first lab job on the day of my 21st birthday, which I always considered a gift from the Spirit of the universe (since I was not a believer in those days). Almost fifty years later I am still doing it, not in a dark room, but printing/colour correcting files before they are printed, and scanning negs and slides to our hard drive so they can be mailed to our clients/customers/amateur and professional photographers... and I still love doing it. (I have only worked in three different labs in all that time. I have been at my current job since 1982!) These days I am only working three days a week and six hours days, but at my age that's perfect, and in today's economy I sure do appreciate the extra funds, and everyone loves my work for the most part, since although what I do looks very easy, not many can do it with the consistency that I can, and even my boss says he could not do it (colour correct hundreds or even thousands of files a day).
Now I correct the files on a monitor that I keep balanced to our printing machine and papers, but when I first learned I had to read the negative with my eye, and there was no back printer to record the filtration data, then, either, but I was pretty good at remembering every single correction I made. I could not do that today.
Any who, if you have your work flat and photograph it under even lighting conditions (not bright sunlight or in shadows) you should be able to get a decent enough exposure that you could maybe enhance a bit if necessary, with filters that editing apps provide. You could even crop it if needed... and if it still looks crap, and you post it, I can take it into photoshop on my laptop and do some more work with it to make it look better for you, if you want
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As a young Chef I was working the Jersey Shore which is south of you but similar.
And where I'd kill for a steak I could have a lobster for my lunch...(culls, but still quite good) those were the days....lobsters weren't any more expensive than a burger for us....so I ate my fill of them, crabs (softshells) and clams regularly. Then I went back south....
And where I'd kill for a steak I could have a lobster for my lunch...(culls, but still quite good) those were the days....lobsters weren't any more expensive than a burger for us....so I ate my fill of them, crabs (softshells) and clams regularly. Then I went back south....
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I was trying to remember the camera I had, it was a Rolleiflex SL35 and I said it had no hot shoe for flash and that was correct, but what I had meant to say was that it had no light meter to measure the intensity of the ambient light. And I also said it had a wide angel lens haha instead of wide angle. I had that camera for many years and eventually sold it to a friend; then I think I had a Pentax. I bought my first digital camera in 2003 and became a Christian the following year. Digital was just really taking off then, but it fairly quickly changed a lot of how we do our work, and the amount of work we do, since we lost about four out of every five photographers after that (they went out of business). Many amateurs are starting to shoot film again and get it scanned so they have digital files.
I'd love to see one of your landscapes! I worked quite a long time on this panel,
constructing the landscape from individual bits and getting the woman right...
Isaiah 12:2-3
constructing the landscape from individual bits and getting the woman right...
Isaiah 12:2-3
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Im near you in age but live very far from you. I love in Sweden. I also end up here to connect with other christian. I love in a small city in north of Sweden and here is not many other christian in my age. I go to a small church with mostly oleder people and im the only in my family that is Christian.
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Black and white can be very interesting without the colour distraction...
then it is all down to subject matter, composition and contrast...
I started this panel yesterday, using the face of a young woman I saw in a mini series. I thought
she was supposed to be your age in the show but then it said she was seventeen, although her
real age during filming would have been very early 20s (it came out this year). In the show it had
scenes from five years previous and there is no way she looked 12! More like nine. Any who, I did
enjoy the show. It was called a good girl's guide to murder (she solved a five-year-old mystery).
I have used other (mostly) famous people's faces before, also.
They fall into the category of being in the public domain.
Matthew 16:15-17
^ Original image/face (Emma Myers)
I'd posted it late last night but did not care for the eyes I used.
Sometimes it is hard to find them at the exactly right angle... and
I often try many different ones before I find the ones I settle on
then it is all down to subject matter, composition and contrast...
I started this panel yesterday, using the face of a young woman I saw in a mini series. I thought
she was supposed to be your age in the show but then it said she was seventeen, although her
real age during filming would have been very early 20s (it came out this year). In the show it had
scenes from five years previous and there is no way she looked 12! More like nine. Any who, I did
enjoy the show. It was called a good girl's guide to murder (she solved a five-year-old mystery).
I have used other (mostly) famous people's faces before, also.
They fall into the category of being in the public domain.
Matthew 16:15-17
^ Original image/face (Emma Myers)
I'd posted it late last night but did not care for the eyes I used.
Sometimes it is hard to find them at the exactly right angle... and
I often try many different ones before I find the ones I settle on
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