Photographs

Gallery

History

I've been taking photographs since my Medical School days. I bought a Minolta SRT 201 and use the darkroom in the lab that I was doing my PhD research in. Then it was black and white.

I exhibited in a few juried shows, but when I lost the darkroom, I lost interest.

Having a digital darkroom and the abilty to create websites has rekindled my interest. I photograph for the internet now.

In general, I shoot color negative film and have images processed by Ofoto. The combination of cheap film and cheap processing is the most efficient way I've found to create and view images. I've tried slides a few times, but I don't see the advantage for me.

I take the best looking images and have them scanned to PhotoCD. While I've gotten a PictureCD from Ofoto, the quality of the scans were disappointed beyond the difference in the resolution.

The PhotoCD images are then modified using GraphicConverter in the same ways I'd work in the darkroom. I alter contrast and grey level. I almost never crop images, but that is just personal discipline to enforce composition of images at the time of shooting.

I've created one photoessay, Newfoundland Adventure, using images from our summer, 2001 trip.