Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last week I was requested to submit two pictures to a prestigious Northeast photo show featuring industrial activity. I have been retired now for some years and I didn't have any recent work so I simply submitted two random pictures from my files. Here they are: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/The+valve+room.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/New+Orleans.jpg.html The curator, a scholarly youngish man in his early 30s, was very impressed and wanted to know how I achieved the grainy, film like look in the photos. Did I use Photoshop or one of the other recent digital photo manipulation programs. It took me some time to explain that I actually used film. Digital cameras had not yet been invented when I took the pictures. The cameras too were much more primitive than he expected. The first picture, "The Valve Room" was taken with a Rollei 35 in the1970s, the second, "New Orleans," with a sun-miniature Minox, even before that. I think that he found it hard to wrap his mind around the idea that film was actually used to take pictures and not just a semi-mythical curiosity like the wet collodion process. Larry Z