tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483144209982516907.post8432058782596539916..comments2024-01-19T02:45:02.968-08:00Comments on Photography: See the Light: Getting started in Industrial PhotographyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15033483436181033395noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483144209982516907.post-15536456487865810262017-02-15T06:31:50.287-08:002017-02-15T06:31:50.287-08:00My how the world of Industrial Photography has cha...My how the world of Industrial Photography has changed since my days of being an Industrial and Architectural Photographer, as well as a Works Photographer in the heady 1960s and 1970s!<br /><br />"Machine shops, manufacturing firms, scrap yards, shipping" and lots of other places, all sound so familiar, and yes, may of them indeed were "places where you can get your hands dirty", but "lighting gear.....dirty"? or dressing "in casual clothes that will allow you to get on the floor, behind machines, up on ladders or in other dirty, odd places to get a good camera angle"? Never! as we always wore smart clothes (our bosses always wore suits (yes, suits) when working on any job, even in situations when and where concrete was being poured within inches of us and our equipment!<br /><br />Overall though, a most interesting insight into Industrial photography in the 21st century, so thank you very much for sharing your experience and suggestions, even though such things as "softboxes"? "strobes"?"RAW file"? "PhotoShop"? "mono light strobes"? "slaved"? "a pocket wizard wireless control"??? "power pack system"?" ProFoto compact mono lights"? and/or "blue and red gelled lights"?? may as well be a foreign language to this retired 70yr old who primarily worked in Monochrome, using a Gandolfi whole-plate (cut film) camera (always tripod mounted 'cos of its weight), Photoflood lightbulbs in Reflectors (on tripod stands), where light from the Reflectors was either 'bounced', 'directed', or 'painted', and where the only 'manipulation' of images, post-processing, involved the use of 'red opaque liquid' on negatives, or (when making contact prints),cutting out 'masks' from, or pencil shading on, tracing paper, before placing the negative above a panel of 64 small light bulbs (each of which could be either swithed on or off), and then a rheostat to control the light intensity - and all that before a single (test) print was made!<br /><br />But then, I wonder how many of today's Industrial and Architectural Photographers could process 100 at a time (x 5) prints in a developer bath, getting them all evenly developed, before 'stopping' the process, and finishing their development in a bath of fixing solution? let alone individually glaze each print, stamp same, and then deliver to the Client within hours of taking the photograph?!<br /><br />Yes, not only has colour replaced monochrome, digital replaced 'grain', and modern supplanted 'old', but as one who now operates a smartphone that besides making/taking calls, is also an all-singing, all-dancing magic-box, the ability to take photos with the same device and send them all over the world in a fraction of a second via Social Media (and all from a device that's not that larger, 'though certainly much flatter, than one of the lenses we used to use, let alone it weighing not much more than a couple of the sheets of film we used to use!) I'm not too certain whether my Photographic career was better in the 1960s, or in today's digital age.<br /><br />(After cogitating on the latter, I've decided. Industrial and Architectural, plus Commercial was much more 'fun' and 'accurate' in the days of yore, even without the ability to immediately see (and then 'tweak') each image, and if the equipment (even if 50-odd years ago it might then have appeared archaic) was very heavy and needed several people to carry everything, because everything from back then, lasted, and - in my opinion (simple though it may be) - will still be in existence in 100+ years time, but digital???<br /><br />Thank you for a great article, and for bringing memories from my past to the fore once again, and if you ever want to know "how it was done in the old days", well, you now know where I am!<br /><br />Cheers from the UK<br />John C AlgarThePoetJohnChristopher©https://www.blogger.com/profile/14265675084476632107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483144209982516907.post-1294809611242226482016-05-26T16:01:04.484-07:002016-05-26T16:01:04.484-07:00Email DennisDavisPhotography@gmail.company
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Great article!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03707240053566901737noreply@blogger.com