Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Did you tell him that when you walked out of that room, there were couple dinosaurs grazing? On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto