I just started taking pictures. I didn’t even bother to look at what I was photographing —I didn’t know how I could do that— and I knew nothing about the various types of post processing software, or even that I needed it. I was simply happy that I could experiment by taking hundreds of pictures without worrying about the cost of film.
The digital technology had given me a new way of doing photography. I felt liberated from the old darkroom/fine print technology that had become so restrictive. Using the digital was like starting anew. Upon returning to Victor Harbor, Lariane, my friend mentioned that I needed to use Picassa on the Windows PC to organize and process the photos. I downloaded it and started using the software as if I were in a virtual darkroom.
However, I wasn’t impressed with the results I was getting. I posted some of the pictures to Flickr date stamped and all, and some on junk for code, then I quickly forget about the rest. I was embarrassed. I concentrated on the film images taken with an old Rolleiflex TLR.
Going through the archives this morning was a looking back at where I started with the new technology and looking at my learning curve as I became familiar with digital. I could look at them anew and see them as images that could be worked on.