Ralph Turner
Dec 30, 2012 17:36:36 #
I have been doing photography since about 1947. Brownie, Ricoh Reflex, 4x5 Speed Graphic, Argus C-3, Pentax(s), Sony DSCF828, Nikon DX5100. in that order. Those were or are my main cameras although there were some others like a Rolleicord, a Leica, a smaller format Speed Graphic and more than one generation of Pentaxes. Most of these cameras are still with me.
I have done a lot of darkroom work from age 15, including as High School photographer and much later in the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the U of Arizona. I am a painter and sculptor and signmaker and much of the time my photography is an aid or part of that work. I taught at 6 various College and Universities around the country, mostly in architectural departments.
I welcomed the advent of digital photography because I saw it as a way of doing better 'darkroom' work. And then the ability to photograph in low lite situations was an advantage. I have played with steroe photography after using stereo photography from space on a day to day basis. I spent 10 years connected to the Planetary Laboratory where photography was a main tool for discovery. In late years I have been chasing down petroglyphs and pictographs and using photography as the main tool for recording them. This has included a lot of traveling in the western United States, where I live. However most of the rock art is in desert ares and I live on the very wet Pacific Coast.
I joined this group to help get on top of the Nikon and to see what other people are doing.
I have done a lot of darkroom work from age 15, including as High School photographer and much later in the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the U of Arizona. I am a painter and sculptor and signmaker and much of the time my photography is an aid or part of that work. I taught at 6 various College and Universities around the country, mostly in architectural departments.
I welcomed the advent of digital photography because I saw it as a way of doing better 'darkroom' work. And then the ability to photograph in low lite situations was an advantage. I have played with steroe photography after using stereo photography from space on a day to day basis. I spent 10 years connected to the Planetary Laboratory where photography was a main tool for discovery. In late years I have been chasing down petroglyphs and pictographs and using photography as the main tool for recording them. This has included a lot of traveling in the western United States, where I live. However most of the rock art is in desert ares and I live on the very wet Pacific Coast.
I joined this group to help get on top of the Nikon and to see what other people are doing.
Dec 30, 2012 17:46:10 #
Welcome aboard. You find the UHH a good site to learn, ask questions and post some of your pics.
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Dec 31, 2012 09:28:41 #
Welcome from Vero Beach.
You will find lots of help and ideas here at UHH.
You will find lots of help and ideas here at UHH.
Dec 31, 2012 11:39:42 #
At the top of the screen, use the search function, and type in Stereo Photography. It will bring up other submitted topics on Stereo Photography. Welcome to UHH.
Dec 31, 2012 12:10:19 #
arjty wrote:
I have been doing photography since about 1947. B... (show quote)
Hi Ralph, welcome to the hog. With your background, im sure you will be the one giving advice before to long. You will be great here. Cant wait to see some more of your work. The collage you posted is really cool.
Rich
Dec 31, 2012 14:01:11 #
Rich2236 wrote:
quote=arjty I have been doing photography since a... (show quote)
I can only second Rich Welcome.
Dec 31, 2012 16:32:41 #
welcome, you have led an interesting life. Do you find that your experience in other forms of art, helps your photography? FYI Norman Rockwell would take photographs of what he wanted to draw and had local townspeople in costume for his photographs. He was as talented a photographer as he was an illustrator.
Dec 31, 2012 17:08:14 #
Dec 31, 2012 17:22:48 #
Absolutely. I was always interested in composition, i.e. the relationship of the frame to the contents. Movement within the format. In late years I have felt that the rectangle is limiting and is 'square' as opposed to open. I have been making hexagon compositions and different formats (shape of the frame) with hexagon elements. Earlier I had played with circular paintings and drawings. And of course sculpture is not limited by rectangular confinements. Probably why I went there. The whole culture, architecture, windows, entrances, are all rectangular. The rectangle or cube is inherently non structural. Structure is based on triangles. This is true of macro structures as well as atomic scale forms. Diagrams in chemistry of structure is dominated by hexagons, pentagons and triangles. There is no reason for digital images to be rectangular other than they have been built around that assumption. Early Kodak photos were circular, reflecting the lens which captured or projected the light.
'Stanislaw 44'
'Kafib watching Oxeyud'
'Hexfoil 6'
Dec 31, 2012 23:47:25 #
Very interesting photographs. Would love to see some of your pictographs and petroglyphs if you would care to share some of them. Oh, and welcome to the forum.
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