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George Rath australiaPhoto © George Rath
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Birubi Point Sunrise Colours
Not long after, I moved up into the SLR world of cameras and bought my first Minolta XG1. After shooting many rolls of film and waiting a few days for the prints to come back from the lab, I decided to setup my own darkroom.
I printed in black & white but mostly colour from the negatives that I also developed myself. I found that the prints from negatives lacked colour and depth that I wanted. Then I discovered Slide Film (Kodachrome 64 & Ektachrome) and it was wow. The colours were magnificent, vibrant and stunning, everything I was looking for in a photographic print. So I began printing on Ilford Cibachrome. The results were stunning.
Early in 2011 I decided to give digital photography a try and bought a Canon DSLR.
Even though I have access to all the best and fastest computers available, I have a dislike to post-processing photographs on the computer. (It doesn’t even come close to a real darkroom.) I attempt to get my photos 95% done in the camera so I don’t have to spend hours in front of the computer post-processing, valuable time that could be spent behind the camera instead.
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Birubi Point Sunrise with the sun rising behind me painting the sky and sea in a beautiful hue of colours.about the photographer
Back in the ’80′s I was a teenager when I bought my first camera, a Polaroid Instamatic Camera. I loved how it was almost “instant”, you could point at your subject, press the shutter button and within a minute or two you had an actual print in your hand.Not long after, I moved up into the SLR world of cameras and bought my first Minolta XG1. After shooting many rolls of film and waiting a few days for the prints to come back from the lab, I decided to setup my own darkroom.
I printed in black & white but mostly colour from the negatives that I also developed myself. I found that the prints from negatives lacked colour and depth that I wanted. Then I discovered Slide Film (Kodachrome 64 & Ektachrome) and it was wow. The colours were magnificent, vibrant and stunning, everything I was looking for in a photographic print. So I began printing on Ilford Cibachrome. The results were stunning.
Early in 2011 I decided to give digital photography a try and bought a Canon DSLR.
Even though I have access to all the best and fastest computers available, I have a dislike to post-processing photographs on the computer. (It doesn’t even come close to a real darkroom.) I attempt to get my photos 95% done in the camera so I don’t have to spend hours in front of the computer post-processing, valuable time that could be spent behind the camera instead.
back to gallery