about
My interest in photography stems from a early age when as a young lad in the 60’s I would follow my Father into his darkroom and watch through the dim red light, an image appear (by what seemed magic) on a sheet of photographic paper in the developing tray.
Marriage, kids and the rat race curtailed a serious pursuit of a career in photography until many years later when in 1987 I “upgraded” from film to my first digital camera a Fuji ds-h1 with its 400k resolution (less than ½ a Megapixel in today’s terms) and effectively moved the darkroom onto the computer. Technology has raced ahead since and my present Canon 1ds Mk2 & 5D Mk2 cameras produce a 17 and 21 Megapixel images.
It has been said that this will be the lost generation in photography, no more sepia aged prints for the grandchildren to wonder at because only a small portion of digital images will ever get printed and the remainder will disappear from history following a Microsoft blue screen of death, hard drive failure or the degradation of CD media.
I always back up my images & print out the best photographs at a3 size in which far more detail can be seen and in better quality than than on a small computer screen. They bring back many good memories of the capture – early and late sorties chasing the light, yomping across land with a 13 kg backpack of kit and the sights and sounds of nature whilst waiting for the optimum moment.
Mike Byford
Marriage, kids and the rat race curtailed a serious pursuit of a career in photography until many years later when in 1987 I “upgraded” from film to my first digital camera a Fuji ds-h1 with its 400k resolution (less than ½ a Megapixel in today’s terms) and effectively moved the darkroom onto the computer. Technology has raced ahead since and my present Canon 1ds Mk2 & 5D Mk2 cameras produce a 17 and 21 Megapixel images.
It has been said that this will be the lost generation in photography, no more sepia aged prints for the grandchildren to wonder at because only a small portion of digital images will ever get printed and the remainder will disappear from history following a Microsoft blue screen of death, hard drive failure or the degradation of CD media.
I always back up my images & print out the best photographs at a3 size in which far more detail can be seen and in better quality than than on a small computer screen. They bring back many good memories of the capture – early and late sorties chasing the light, yomping across land with a 13 kg backpack of kit and the sights and sounds of nature whilst waiting for the optimum moment.
Mike Byford