tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584666562974702898.post5158221019821335197..comments2024-03-24T08:14:10.627-05:00Comments on Glen Barrington - My Dynamic Range: Photography Simply Doesn't Matter Any MoreGlen BArringtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059587483668684991noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584666562974702898.post-86773818785957060872023-11-20T05:16:26.400-06:002023-11-20T05:16:26.400-06:00Like almost everyone of my vintage (mid-70s), I no...Like almost everyone of my vintage (mid-70s), I nowadays do all my photography entirely to please myself. Have done so more or less since 1961. I also resist the growing realization that, as the years pass and I head steadily towards that big darkroom in the skies, I've said everything I wanted to in my images. So the time is fast coming (not quite here yet, but I suspect around the next corner) for me to hang up my cameras, and concentrate on my post processing and archival work for what time remains for me. <br /><br />Also like many others, I had my best years In the period 1975-2000 before digital came into the picture (apology for the bad pun) and turned everything inside out and upside down. Sold a few thousand stock images for good enough money to let me upgrade my equipment (after two years of sales to book publishers in Europe, in 1983 I was financially able to move from Pentax and Minolta and into my first Nikon kit) and mostly during the '80s, I traveled extensively around Southeast Asia on the $$ my stock sales brought in for me. All gone now. My last good year was 2015 when I sold just over US$1000 worth of work. Very little since. As you so aptly wrote, art directors now pilfer what they want by going online, and as I see it, judging by the low quality of a lot of the printed work I'm seeing, book and magazine readers are entirely the worst off for me. My opinion entirely here... <br /><br />Sadly, in the last 20 years, we have all seen photography become 'devalued' due to the amazing amount of digicrap flooding the universe. Good images are now worth very little thanks to the proliferation of bad photography everywhere. Few under the age of 40 have ever used film or had the pleasure of spending an evening in a photo darkroom. It rather seems to me that so many now spend most of their free time online, fishing for little pats on the head from anonymous nonentities or posting the 1289 images they took of the family picnic last weekend in the hope of getting a 'like'. Such a waste of valuable time, but alas, it's the way of the world now in Century 21. <br /><br />Now and then, purely for the pleasure of it, I go back to my collection of Ansel Adams 'how to' photo guides from the 1950s. So much of the information the great AA wrote back then now resonates about as much as tech data on tintypes must have done in 1920. But it's still good for me to go back to the basics now and then, purely for the hedonistic surge I get by reliving those good times in my past life, when such books mattered. <br /><br />You wrote a splendid article, and as a newcomer to your site, I'm rather sad that you haven't posted a lot since 2017. It may be that you are just out making yet more images, altho' I like to think there surely must be many more words left in the old brain... <br /><br />In closing a heartfelt Thank You for your good words. <br /><br />DANN in MelbourneJay Dann Walker in Australianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584666562974702898.post-15037284557797999762020-02-06T14:43:55.154-06:002020-02-06T14:43:55.154-06:00The Germans say "Totgesagte leben länger"...The Germans say "Totgesagte leben länger" - "there's life in the old dog yet" things haven't changed too much since you wrote this almost four years ago, and there are still plenty of us out there enjoying practicing the craft of making quality images. The technical steps have changed a little with more emphasis on editing, but the basic skills are still necessary.Mike Pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06517328524555117647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584666562974702898.post-25803567426404331042019-09-22T03:42:34.222-05:002019-09-22T03:42:34.222-05:00Great,
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keep sharing ...Great,<br /><br />We love your writing skills.<br />keep sharing things like this.Naman Kumarhttps://www.cryptoemotions.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584666562974702898.post-42089832309236058832017-04-01T00:57:33.230-05:002017-04-01T00:57:33.230-05:00Very nice blog, a joy to read!
Perhaps photograph...Very nice blog, a joy to read! <br />Perhaps photography will follow the path of Music? The numbers of sold LP's has risen by triple digits lately. Many are buying them without even having acces to a turntable. If this rising numbers continue for some time, LPs will kill CD'S. In the end we all win. Streaming for almost free while handling the lovely sleeves at the same time? perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05965137252027043519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584666562974702898.post-42993581960599829352016-05-06T02:58:56.586-05:002016-05-06T02:58:56.586-05:00Very true. You have hit the nail on the head.Very true. You have hit the nail on the head.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com