Happy Anniversary!

Believe it or not, today is my studio’s 3rd anniversary. Can you imagine opening a business on April Fool’s day? But things have worked out well, in spite of the irony of the date. 🙂

Yesterday I visited some local antique stores in search of an item to use a prop. During the search I ran across some old photography magazines. I found 2 magazines from 1928 and 1 from 1939. It amazing how much photography has changed over the past 70-80 years. It’s even more amazing how much its stayed the same. The details and mechanics have changed but the basic manipulation and capturing of light is very much the same. It’s just the medium has changed. The effects of various lenses (focal length, aperture, depth of field, etc.) are the same regardless of whether you use digital, 35mm, or large format cameras.

I found it amusing that one of the debates back in the late 1920’s revolved around the use of “miniature” cameras. They are what now refer to as 35mm cameras. Back in the day, everyone used medium format cameras such as Graflex’s or Voigtlanders. When 35mm’s were introduced they were looked down upon as inferior or toy cameras. However, as photographers used the smaller, lighter cameras they found they could do things the larger cameras could not. 

In a way the argument reminded me of the debates over the last decade about the use of digital cameras versus film. When digital was first introduced, no serious photographer considered shooting digital. Digital cameras were toys and only suited for web uses. Over time, as digital quality improved photographers started switching to the new technology. (I went digital in 2000). Now, most photographers shoot digital. 

Also, I thought I’d share some photos from this past weekend.

Anyway, that’s it for this week. Thanks for reading!!!