My father was an avid photographer. I have boxes and boxes of slides and reel upon reel of movies stored in the closet. When he retired from dentistry, he took photography classes at Butte College, and it is from this period that I have the photographs that I most treasure. They are black and whites of my children when they were about the age my grandchildren are now. He took the photos, developed the film, and matted the prints himself.
Most of his photos are landscapes however. He was a big fan of Ansel Adams, of course- I wish I had paid more attention when he talked about him! I recently re-discovered his old Nikon and a couple lenses in a closet. I don’t think I will be getting into film photography, but it would be nice to get his camera cleaned and operational again.
I created this layout for my Beyond Beyond class. I combined two of the three assignments into one. I actually did all three- but wasn’t happy with my results, so this is a quick re-do. The challenges were 1) to find an inspirational quote and, using a specified technique, make it look like it was printed on a chalkboard , 2) use matte processing, and 3) create a layout. The chalkboard technique was interesting, but complicated- and when I decided to create a layout using my quote, I decided I needed a different quote. Instead of going through the process again, I used a chalk font I already had for this layout. I have experimented with matte processing before and enjoyed using Kim’s technique. And (confession time), I created this layout in Lightroom (easier for me than Photoshop).
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Wonderful! I recently found my father’s original Polaroid. It’s the type you can’t get film for anymore, but it was still fun checking it out. Everything still works on it. It’s a model made between ’57-’60. There was an empty film box with it with expiry of 1972. How I wish there had been one more roll left!
Fantastic layout! You aced all three challenges. I really relate. My father was a photographer too and I treasure his beautiful Rolleiflex. It is an icon for me. I treasure his black and white photos — some are on my walls.
i REALLY LIKE THE COMPOSITE….A LOVELY REMINDER OF YOUR DAD.
Really nice layout, quote, processing, and photos. We’ll have to plan a film weekend with you using your Dad’s Nikon and me, using Chris’ Dad’s Minolta. Don’t think we’ll be able to find a darkroom to develop, though.
My Dad was an avid photographer too. My Mom gave Stephanie my Dads’ camera. They transferred all the old movies into DVD’s and gave each of their kids copies I still have over 700 slides from my parents….plus all of ours…..I was going to transfer them to a CD but keep putting it off. Now I don’t know if I want to even switch the DVD’s to CD’s……who knows what we will be using in a few more years…… Kearstin wants to take photography for her elective next year………. nice picture…….
No wonder you have an eye for photography. How great to have had a photographer in the family when the kids were young. It was only me and I was terrible!! I do have one of Caitlin and Erik in my Mother’s living room.