Please allow me to introduce myself?
My name is Brian?
And I am a film waster!
Since I?ve been lurking here for a few weeks now, I though I should put myself out there for all the (FilmWaster) world to see.
I live and work in Southern California. I get the feeling that a lot of your folks here are not from my neck of the woods that you may be from ?across the pond.? I grew up on the opposite side of the country ? New England ? but right after college I came out here. It was for a short stay, six months or so, and that was thirty years ago. And I must admit, one of the things that kept me here, aside from the balmy weather, was the quality of the light. We have this glorious golden light, especially between the equinoxes and the summer solstice.
I?ve been making photographs since 1970. I came across an unused darkroom in my high school, and the A-V teacher said I could use it any time I wanted to. I ran a few rolls of B&W through my Dad?s old Nikkormat 35mm, processed the film, and I was hooked. To this day I still remember examining those strips of film, seeing the pictures I took of my neighborhood, on the celluloid, shot and processed by my very own hand.
Today I shoot primarily B&W on 4x5 and 8x10 sheets, and a fair amount of color trannies in a pair of RB67s I haul around. While I do own some digital equipment, I don?t shoot it very much. I?d much rather make a few decent images on sheets of film, than blow through hundreds of shutter clicks on the digital.
I came to this forum through a reference on the Large Format Photography Forum, and after lurking here for a while, found it a likable place. So here I am, laying myself out to all of you.
Brian
