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looking for the Ai on the hiking trail

More than any other image or collection of images, the Deep Field communicates the immensity of the Universe in way which is (almost?) accessible to the human mind. I like Norma's (Fred's) reference to proportionality, though I prefer referential scale. It is kind of like, though far larger than, the overwhelming sense of time described by Colin Fletcher in The Man Who Walked Through Time, as he tried to explain his own comprehension of the time scales exposed for observation in the rock layers of the Grand Canyon.

very humbling about being put in my place so absolutely.

To the point of misty eyes

I learned photography in the early 1970s on a Konica I and my high school's Mamiya Sekor 1000DTL. I mostly shot Tri-X, often pushed to 1200. I developed film (in D76) and printed using a serviceable enlarger on polycontrast resin paper (never my best skill) for the yearbook.

 

Later in life, I purchased a Nikon Coolscan V and got used to the workflow of taking the pictures with my film cameras, developing the black and white and taking the color to local photofinishers, scanning the black and white and color negatives and slides, editing the resulting photos in Photoshop, and then printing on the Epson.

 

Then digital came along. Now the workflow was much simpler. Go out and shoot the digitals onto cards, come back and plug them into Photoshop at first, and then Aperture, edit them, and post some. I didn't bother printing anymore. Mainly because those Epson printers required regular use or they dried up and became useless, and because the ink was so expensive.

 

Recently I got back into photography and took out some of my film cameras for exercise. This necessitated that I step back into my previous workflow with the need to buy chemistry, develop the film, scan the negatives, and edit and post them. It was interesting to remember how different the experience is. Developing black and white is a kind of magic, to see the images on the roll after you finish the developing. You're never sure if the shots will look good, while shoot digitally allows you to check the image on the rear screen. The whole developing process, and the scanning process is time consuming and slow, but there's still a certain joy of discovery that is perhaps greater for being delayed?

 

How has your workflow changed during the time you have been taking pictures? What are your thoughts on whether it feels better now than it used to, or do you miss what you used to do in the old days? How do you feel about what things are like these days? What do you prefer from your earlier workflows? What are you grateful for in the present?

I’m mostly happy to just do what’s in front of me. Workflow is simply a support beam for the main structure of my photography, which is more about vision than process