My name is Philip Blume. I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. I learned of the ProDIG group by reading Mr. Evening�s excellent book on Photoshop.
I have been involved in photography as an avocation for many years. At the present, I serve as the photography department of Desert Sky Communications, a New Mexico public relations company operated by my wife, Jane. My principal interest is fine art photography. I have recently joined the cooperative that operates the Nob Hill Gallery in Albuquerque where my work will be shown on a continuing basis. I am equally interested in color and black & white photography. I do all of my own darkroom work. I use negative material for virtually all of my color work, printing with Type C material. I have something of a technical interest in photography and have done a good deal of work in b&w sensitometry. I�ve developed equipment and computer programs to expedite the procedures. While it�s fun, it�s something of an anachronism these days and not many people are interested in it. I have become interested in digital photography and have begun to show digitally printed work�mostly color, but b&w too. At this point, I no longer think I can get as consistently fine results in the darkroom as I can digitally�at least for color. I usually use medium format film. I have a new Nikon Coolscan 9000 film scanner that I�m quite pleased with. I use an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 printer for those of my color display prints. I�ve yet to invest in a professional quality digital camera. I do have an Olympus Camedia C-5050 which is fun to experiment with and which has provided some excellent results. So far, I still prefer film for display prints. My principal subject material consists of landscapes, inanimate objects, etc. Some of my work may be seen at the following web address: www.desertskycommunications.com/pbfinephoto. 13401 Circulo Largo NE Albuqueruqe, NM 87112, U.S.A. 505-294-1976 =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
