When I go back towards the memories of the yesteryears, I find myself in the dark room with my uncle trying to learn how we transform the images inside the camera obscura permanently on a black sheet of paper.
So dark was the room that I could see nothing at all except at times he would turn on the extremely dim red bulb, I don't know on what interval.
In total darkness, he would teach me how to take the film out of the camera, how to develop it and then finally print it.
It was a difficult task but the end result of getting those beautiful prints always acted as incentive in my learning the art of photography.
Same was the case when I went shooting with him.
At times, the roll would end when there was something in action which would deprive me of shooting the actions I wanted to freeze for a while.
The way he gave me photography instructions was all analog and nothing digital.
No more is the case the same in the present-day photography and.
With the advancement in technology, photography has seen a completed revolution.
When I was growing up, the only medium was Black & White.
Even though Kodachrome was introduced back in 1935, we never had the chance of using it when I was growing.
However, life was a lot easier when we had the privilege of developing with machine and when we did not have to use dark rooms to make photographic prints.
The field of photography, however, went through complete change when it turned digital.
Instead of using films to take photographs, one would use digital storage in the form of memory cards which could be erased for reuse making it cheaper in the long run.
Because of the digital technology, photography has become a lot easier as you do not need to learn photo development anymore.
Only thing you need to do it shoot and transfer it to your computer: it is ready to view.
You can keep the ones you like and delete the ones you don't, and when the memory card is full, you can just erase or format the card and you can use it as a brand new card, so you don't have to keep on buying when one is full like in those days when you were using a film camera.
Moreover, with the ubiquity of the internet Web resources teaching visual arts for free, you can learn photography tips as well in order to improve your photographic ability instead of getting in the dark room as I did in my early days.
All it takes is a camera, passion and eagerness to learn.
More and more often we are told that the art of photography is being depreciated above measure, since anyone can take pictures now.
It stopped being the privilege of the inner circle of snobs, red-eyed from sitting in dark rooms all days long with no other light than that of a red bulb.
Well, it is not depreciation - it is resurrection.
The best thing about it is that anyone can contribute.
If you want to learn, you can do it quite effortlessly.
So dark was the room that I could see nothing at all except at times he would turn on the extremely dim red bulb, I don't know on what interval.
In total darkness, he would teach me how to take the film out of the camera, how to develop it and then finally print it.
It was a difficult task but the end result of getting those beautiful prints always acted as incentive in my learning the art of photography.
Same was the case when I went shooting with him.
At times, the roll would end when there was something in action which would deprive me of shooting the actions I wanted to freeze for a while.
The way he gave me photography instructions was all analog and nothing digital.
No more is the case the same in the present-day photography and.
With the advancement in technology, photography has seen a completed revolution.
When I was growing up, the only medium was Black & White.
Even though Kodachrome was introduced back in 1935, we never had the chance of using it when I was growing.
However, life was a lot easier when we had the privilege of developing with machine and when we did not have to use dark rooms to make photographic prints.
The field of photography, however, went through complete change when it turned digital.
Instead of using films to take photographs, one would use digital storage in the form of memory cards which could be erased for reuse making it cheaper in the long run.
Because of the digital technology, photography has become a lot easier as you do not need to learn photo development anymore.
Only thing you need to do it shoot and transfer it to your computer: it is ready to view.
You can keep the ones you like and delete the ones you don't, and when the memory card is full, you can just erase or format the card and you can use it as a brand new card, so you don't have to keep on buying when one is full like in those days when you were using a film camera.
Moreover, with the ubiquity of the internet Web resources teaching visual arts for free, you can learn photography tips as well in order to improve your photographic ability instead of getting in the dark room as I did in my early days.
All it takes is a camera, passion and eagerness to learn.
More and more often we are told that the art of photography is being depreciated above measure, since anyone can take pictures now.
It stopped being the privilege of the inner circle of snobs, red-eyed from sitting in dark rooms all days long with no other light than that of a red bulb.
Well, it is not depreciation - it is resurrection.
The best thing about it is that anyone can contribute.
If you want to learn, you can do it quite effortlessly.
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