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herbgold

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Thanks for letting me join your interesting forum. No experience at all of large format camera work - I've taken a lot of 6*6 pictures on my beloved and much missed Bronica, which finally gave up the ghost last year. Starting a 4-week practical course in June at my local adult education centre on theory and practice of large format photography, which I'm greatly looking forward to.
 
Hello Herb,
please to meet you here. Perhaps you are not too far away from me in Oxford?
Interested to hear that you have found an LF course at an Adult Education centre - our local FE college still has a darkroom but it seems very underused.
Where is your course?
Welcome to the world of dreamy images on ground-glass screens. I'd say it's a slippery slope, but the metaphor is wrong. It's hard to give it up, once you are hooked, but the slope is all upwards.
Wendy
 
Hello back from East London :)
Nice to hear adult education doing some film and especially LF related stuff. I taught photography at a FE college for a while but they'd ripped out all the darkroom stuff and gone the full digital route.
LF is addictive - the first time you handle a BIG negative that you've made - see that 'look' that you really can't fake with anything else - you'll get bitten by the bug.
Good luck and enjoy yourself!
 
Thank you both very much for your welcomes!
AnalogueWendy said:
Hello Herb,
please to meet you here. Perhaps you are not too far away from me in Oxford?
Interested to hear that you have found an LF course at an Adult Education centre - our local FE college still has a darkroom but it seems very underused.
Where is your course?
Welcome to the world of dreamy images on ground-glass screens. I'd say it's a slippery slope, but the metaphor is wrong. It's hard to give it up, once you are hooked, but the slope is all upwards.
Wendy
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herbgold said:
Thank you both very much for your welcomes!
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AnalogueWendy said:
Hello Herb,
please to meet you here. Perhaps you are not too far away from me in Oxford?
Interested to hear that you have found an LF course at an Adult Education centre - our local FE college still has a darkroom but it seems very underused.
Where is your course?
Welcome to the world of dreamy images on ground-glass screens. I'd say it's a slippery slope, but the metaphor is wrong. It's hard to give it up, once you are hooked, but the slope is all upwards.
Wendy
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Hi Wendy, nice to "meet" you. The course is at City Lit, the "City Literary Institute", which runs lots of adult ed day and evening courses. I've been doing courses there for years, but this is the first practical course I'll be doing (all up to now have been history and literature).
I live in Putney, in SW London, and from here to Oxford is relatively easy - we visit friends there quite often.
Herb
 
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Marley's Ghost said:
Hello back from East London :)
Nice to hear adult education doing some film and especially LF related stuff. I taught photography at a FE college for a while but they'd ripped out all the darkroom stuff and gone the full digital route.
LF is addictive - the first time you handle a BIG negative that you've made - see that 'look' that you really can't fake with anything else - you'll get bitten by the bug.
Good luck and enjoy yourself!
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Hi,

Thank you for the friendly welcome. Am greatly looking forward to starting out on this new route!

Herb
 
The best accessory for large format photography is a sense of humour in my book: learn to laugh at your mistakes ... because believe me you will make them! Learn by them but smile about it :)
And if you take pictures in a public area - be prepared for silly questions from the general population ...
'are you a surveyor?'
'Is that a camera?'
And the best one said to me so far ... 'are you trying to be a Victorian?'
 
Marley's Ghost said:
The best accessory for large format photography is a sense of humour in my book: learn to laugh at your mistakes ... because believe me you will make them! Learn by them but smile about it :)
And if you take pictures in a public area - be prepared for silly questions from the general population ...
'are you a surveyor?'
'Is that a camera?'
And the best one said to me so far ... 'are you trying to be a Victorian?'
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The best one I have had so far was
"Are you doing aerial photography?"
I said, "Yes. But I'm doing it on the ground".
 
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Welcome to the club, I know Putney reasonably well, went to School there when it was in Colinette road.
 
herbgold said:
Thanks for letting me join your interesting forum. No experience at all of large format camera work - I've taken a lot of 6*6 pictures on my beloved and much missed Bronica, which finally gave up the ghost last year. Starting a 4-week practical course in June at my local adult education centre on theory and practice of large format photography, which I'm greatly looking forward to.
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Hi and welcome Herb,

I am interested in the course at CityLit, as I have family in South London and a pressing need to rejuvenate (kick start) my LF work.

Hope you are as inspired and supported by this forum as I have been, and a LIT more productive! ...

Robert
 
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