DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

When I qualified as a photographer in 1984 everything was film and my whole working life was viewed mostly in black and white. At that stage a digital image was a thing of pure science fiction, but sometimes science fiction becomes reality and during the late 1990's the whole industry started moving to digital. By the early 2000's, film was dead. Long live the king...!

I miss the process of film, but sometimes you have to go with the flow - and I did. I even taught digital photography for a while. It was the new 'garlic bread', but one of my biggest grievances with the digital image - and always will be - is the question of when the image stops being a picture and becomes a work of art. A digital image can be over edited, over manipulated and the content changed, which is a whole different argument, but personally I keep my editing to the bare minimum. Maybe its my film background, but I try to keep my digital files as basic as possible. I'm a photographer, not an artist, so I keep my editing to the minimum, which is colour, contrast and density. Just keeping it simple...

Since the digital age I've used a variety of cameras. For work it was always Nikon and over the years I've used the DCS410, D1, D2, D3, D4, D750, D810, Z6 and Z7 cameras. Although I've always used Nikon's, I've always had a soft-spot for Fuji and over the years owned the S3 Pro, X Pro-1, XT-1, XPRO 1, XPRO 2, XPRO-3 and XE-3. For a short while I even tried the Leica system, using the M10 rangefinder. These days I try to keep it simple, and now I've retired, all the pro-stuff has gone. All I have is the Fuji XE-3. Simple, small and easy...