My first sense of light and composition occurred on the day I was born - the stark surgical light and the clinically ordered operating room - light and composition right from the start (insert wry smile.)
With my first professional grade camera I had to acquire an understanding of it's technical parameters and the effect therof, as well as an understanding of the capture medium. I shot everything - still life compositions, landscape vistas, close ups of natural and mechanical things, people, and night scenes. Unable to afford the cost of darkroom post processing, I instead studied it, coming to an...more