{"id":45,"date":"2015-03-13T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.wordpress.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2015-05-14T12:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T16:20:03","slug":"prehistoric-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Prehistoric Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, somewhere in high school, I probably thought sixty-somethings were<\/em> from prehistoric times; I also bought my first serious camera, a Mamiya-Sekor DTL 2000(?) 35mm SLR (Mamiya only makes medium format nowadays)–on lay-away from Denholm & McKay. Before recorded history cities mostly had local department stores; and Macy’s was in New York–you had to go there to go to Macy’s. My best friend got a Nikkormat. That was Nikon’s economy brand–a solid, quality SLR none the less. I usually tell people I have been a photographer since about 1973, the year I began learning to work in the darkroom, but that’s just a convenient time to label as my beginning.<\/p>\n

It was a step up from a long growing interest. I enrolled in a continuing ed course in black & white photography at the Worcester Art Museum (worcesterart.org<\/a>) for two semesters. Dennis Wixted was a patient, encouraging, and thorough teacher who, in addition to technique, taught photography’s history and the contempory scene. At his wake I was just one of many who shared their appreciation of his teaching and friendship with members of his family. I labored with the camera to do assignments and take personal shots, thinking about the camera settings, the light, the film… I think I thought more than I shot. It was a job for me to expose all the frames on a roll of film. Eventually, I started buying 24 exposure rolls of 35mm film, 36 exposures being the other common packaging, a little less challenging to finish.<\/p>\n

\"BRONICA<\/a>For most of my later film photography before I changed to primarily digital cameras I used a Bronica ETRS. Here’s one of my images from that camera. The maple trees in the background were at the height of their blazing orange autumn foliage. I used an orange filter on the front of my lens to brighten the leaves that were in full sun to nearly white in my print.<\/p>\n

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Next time I go over to the dark side and start using digital cameras. Eveything is the same if you think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, somewhere in high school, I probably thought sixty-somethings were from prehistoric times; I also bought my first serious camera, a Mamiya-Sekor DTL 2000(?) 35mm SLR (Mamiya only makes medium format nowadays)–on lay-away from Denholm & McKay. Before recorded history cities mostly had local department stores; and Macy’s was in New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25,16,26,1],"tags":[2,7,10,11,12],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analog-photography","category-black-white","category-gear","category-photography","category-uncategorized","tag-35mm-slr","tag-mamiya","tag-nikkormat","tag-nikormat","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markbalcomphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}