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G'moring Bob!

> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Tomatos & Cameras
>
> > >
> > Hokey Smokes! I'd be looking in the newspaper to see if there were any
> folks
> > selling stuff! I'd be going to garage sales...just to see if they had a
> > garden I could buy from!
> >
> > > Actually, there is a 'farmer's market' that opens a couple of days a
> week
>
> > >
> > > The daily paper has stopped running pictures of all the family turmoil
> for
> > > survivors of those who have been killed -- many being innocent
> bystanders
> > > hit by stray bullets from rival gangs.  The recent news on TV showing
a
> > > cab driver being robbed and beaten is just the tip of the iceberg..
> > > That area has been a trouble spot for years.  Several hundred people
> > > there every weekend ..play their car stereos wide open and drink, use
> > > dope, and block a US Highway so motorists have to go around it.  The
> only
> > > reason the cab driver episode got filmed was because some of the
people
> > > there had camcorders to photograph the teen girls stripping and
dancing
> on
> > > the top of cars, which also is a weekly passtime for the low life
trash
>
> >
> > Certainly sounds like you've got a bad situation there Bob! You must be
> > thinking about moving to a better area!
>
> Where I am was one of the last sections of town that hadn't been turned
into
> another ghetto, but that was in the mid eighties when I returned here from
> Atlanta.  Now there are only the high priced home owner neighborhoods
where
> dwellings start at half a million and up that have no such problems.  We
> middle
> class folks have to put up with whatever the government forces on us, and
> yet
> try to maintain a work ethic lifestyle.

Wow, Bob that sound bad! I think I'd be looking to move down to N'Awlins or
somewhere
else where the issues of personal safety might be better addressed!
>
> > Have you been doing any photo stuff lately?
>
> You bet!  And as the weather gets better there will be a LOT more.  I now
> run
> 150 gigs on the hard drives and have five printers laboring off three
> computers.

Have you upgraded to photoshop CS yet? I'm going to make that move 
here in a couple of weeks, along with a scanner, and another external
CD/DVD burner for the laptop. I haven't needed to add another HD to the 
desktop machine yet, but it's also on the list. I just picked up the Nikon
D70
and What a nice camera that is! I haven't had much time to use it yet, but 
will be gearing up with it soon, as I need to be fluent with it by the time
I 
have to shoot the Guitar builder's convention in early July.
Now that I am a retired fellow on a fixed income  the digital will 
certainly be a bigger factor in my shooting!
I have rented a "workspace" where I have started doing production work 
on my emulsion and image transfers and working on lesson plans for teaching
workshops on both methods. I also have a couple of private students who are 
interested in learning what real photography means and want to do more than 
simply point and shoot. Things are busy and I am certainly happy every day!

> Digital cameras are really very nice.  I do miss all the fun darkroom
stuff
> from
> film processing to printing my own color and doing my own slide
processing,
> but without the digitals and computers I would not be doing any
photography
> at all.  Getting processing done locally is a nightmare.  The custom labs
> ruin more
> film than they do right at times, and too often at that.  The only way to
> get decent
> stuff done, farmed out, is by sending it to Missouri or Texas.

I'm lucky, I have several really good labs nearby, my B&W fellow 
just retired and there really is no one who can replace him, he probably 
was one of the best B&W men in the country and I do miss his work a whole 
lot more than I'd care to admit....not enough to go back into the darkroom 
myself mind you...but when you have some one THAT good you can't help
but miss him when he's gone!
>
> Presently I enjoy doing my darkroom work on a keyboard.  If you know how
to
> do it the old way, doing it with computers is easier.  In many cases it is
> better.
> A 16x20 print film transparency is a tad out of reach but the routine
stuff
> including
> retouching, color and density corrections, cropping, etc. are all faster
and
> much
> preferable done the digital way. 
>
I hear you loud and clear! What have you been shooting lately? Still working
on your town project? 
chat with you soon 
hap
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