Lightworks Photography

Lightworks Photography Much to my parent's slight worry my earliest photo taking experiences were as being a teenager having converted the family bathroom to a make shift darkroom. This specific meant blacking out the many doors and windows usually with an ad hoc selection of older blankets, bits of sequence and tape as well as concocting a number of generally really unpleasant chemicals inside the dimly lit gloom. There is still a certain romance to the present “real” click for me and i also still, on occasion, power outages the bathroom and create styles the old fashioned approach using film, chemical substances and literally art work with light. Among the lovliest aspects of the particular darkroom experience is understanding how to literally craft the particular photographic print along with light.

This involves “dodging as well as burning” to shape paper into an almost animations form - because viewer's eye is actually instinctively lead to the brighter parts of the print one can possibly lead the eye across the print and give the item a beautiful sense of range and form.

This specific early photographic knowledge has informed a few things i do today along with every single print i always produce. The computer features replaced the trays of chemicals and the light from the enlarger but the principal is exactly the exact same - to appearance each and every print, to help fine tune it to help it's optimum publishing potential and to provide it with an individual and side produced finish..

As this is very much behind the scenes I assumed it might be interesting to produce a short video expounding on the process and actually indicating what I did on an image from a new wedding. So, with a great sense of stage frightened trepidation I hit record and the result can be below - it can be somewhat rough across the edges and its barely an oscar winning click from me ( I sound like such a pompous wally!) but the sentiment perhaps there is! photography