"Sometimes you gotta go back to the beginning to learn" -
Krs One
This is so true in photography, at least in my opinion. There are concepts of digital photography that I wouldn't really understand without the darkroom experience that I have. Dodging and burning are great examples. In the darkroom, dodging is where you block light from hitting an area on the paper making the image lighter there and burning is where you allow more light to an area to make it darker. The words make so much sense with that viewpoint. When I first learned to print, I didn't learn the words, just the techniques. I never understood what these tools were in Photoshop until I did some formal darkroom study, then it clicked.
So excited about my Artist in Residence position at Badlands National Park because I'll be spending some time back at my beginnings as a photographer. I'll be shooting some film, between the Badlands and the trip home I plan on shooting 100' of film (20 rolls or so) Some of these are geared towards a book or other articles that I have planned on writing. Some of them will be for the coffee table book I am going to self publish as well as a small collection of limited edition prints.
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| Shot through an 80mm Meade Telescope, non HDR |
I'm also able to get back to one of my original inspirations for getting into photography, astrophotography. I will have access to both of the parks telescopes, which I'll make sure I can hook up both my digital and film cameras to. This way I can do some b/w shots on film and some color with the digital. I might do some of the same objects to use as a comparison so people can see the difference between standard b/w print, standard digital image and an HDR image using the same area of the Moon as the subject. One day, when I'm selling more prints, I'll but my own bigger telescope that I can use, has been a goal of mine for a very long time now.
So, it's back to the beginning to understand more about my art. I'm looking forward to it and I hope you are too!
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