Ok, I'm in. You asked about great photographic moments, and to be honest there have been so very many of them for me - partly to do with my job. As a news cameraman, I can think of very few places I've filmed or photographed. One would be in a submarine or at the bottom of the sea. Another would be space. I've been in just about every other conceivable situation between those two points. Which kind of waters the experience down a bit sometimes, but hey.
So I thought long and hard, and I think I have come up with something that might qualify a a 'great photographic moment'. I distinctly remember my first colour prints off an Epson Stylus Photo (must be nearly ten years ago?) and the immense buzz I got seeing my (then scanned) pictures appearing magically before my eyes in incredible detail and vivacity. Of course, at art college years earlier I had experience something similar with my first black and white wet prints, and then colour. But once I saw those prints off the Stylus Photo (EX - it printed A3) I was so wowed by them that my mind raced with the possibilities. Never again would I have to deal with stinking chemicals and the turgid rituals of agitation. I know many here profess that these very things are a part and parcel of a historic process that verges on the sacred. Alas, not for me. I could blow it out of my bottom. The only other thing that I would quantify as a great photographic moment is when I really felt happy using video editing software (Final Cut) but that's a but tenuous in this case so I'll leave it with the Espon :-) If you want amusing stories, here's just one. I photographed a beautiful sunrise once - a large patch of crimson cloud in an otherwise deep blue sky just before sun-up. I exposed three or four frames if I recall, none longer than about 1/4 sec. On close inspection later, one of the frames appeared to have a streak of crap or something that wasn't obvious, about a couple of dozen pixels long, at a 45 degree angle, bright white, almost like some sort of sensor artifact. BUT - zooming right in to study it (appearing only on one frame, otherwise identical to the frames before and after, taken only a minute or two apart), one thing was obvious - the streak went behind a whisp of cloud and reappeared the other side. It was bright at the front and trailed off at the back. Of course, I had managed to capture a meteor in flight. A shooting star! That was fun. I'll see if I can dig out the pic with a blow-up section. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
