Are You Brave Enough to Post a Picture of Yourself?
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Heh, well, I work in the photo industry and have pretty much the entirely of my adult life,
which is to say, it has been my only profession as an adult, though there were a few times
of being unemployed, such as between jobs temporarily (I have only had three over the
last almost 50 years) except for following the covid closures, when I was involuntarily
retired for over two years. All that to say... images are quite an interest to me, and I have
at times worked on photos people have posted, like very aged ones or badly cropped or
way too large, and resized and colour corrected them and retouched them etc... much
like someone might do for a hundred bucks an hour only I do it for the love of it, and free
I mean that, as an adult, quite literally, for I started my first lab job on the very day of my 21st birthday,
and always considered it a gift from the Spirit of the universe (I was not a believer in those days).
Working as a photo printer was the only thing I knew I wanted to do...
which is to say, it has been my only profession as an adult, though there were a few times
of being unemployed, such as between jobs temporarily (I have only had three over the
last almost 50 years) except for following the covid closures, when I was involuntarily
retired for over two years. All that to say... images are quite an interest to me, and I have
at times worked on photos people have posted, like very aged ones or badly cropped or
way too large, and resized and colour corrected them and retouched them etc... much
like someone might do for a hundred bucks an hour only I do it for the love of it, and free
I mean that, as an adult, quite literally, for I started my first lab job on the very day of my 21st birthday,
and always considered it a gift from the Spirit of the universe (I was not a believer in those days).
Working as a photo printer was the only thing I knew I wanted to do...
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Heh, well, I work in the photo industry and have pretty much the entirely of my adult life,
which is to say, it has been my only profession as an adult, though there were a few times
of being unemployed, such as between jobs temporarily (I have only had three over the
last almost 50 years) except for following the covid closures, when I was involuntarily
retired for over two years. All that to say... images are quite an interest to me, and I have
at times worked on photos people have posted, like very aged ones or badly cropped or
way too large, and resized and colour corrected them and retouched them etc... much
like someone might do for a hundred bucks an hour only I do it for the love of it, and free
which is to say, it has been my only profession as an adult, though there were a few times
of being unemployed, such as between jobs temporarily (I have only had three over the
last almost 50 years) except for following the covid closures, when I was involuntarily
retired for over two years. All that to say... images are quite an interest to me, and I have
at times worked on photos people have posted, like very aged ones or badly cropped or
way too large, and resized and colour corrected them and retouched them etc... much
like someone might do for a hundred bucks an hour only I do it for the love of it, and free
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Okie dokie (LOL). There have been so many changes in the way we do things... for instance, when
I started printing, I read the negs (and positives) with my eye to determine the filtration, as there
were no monitors displaying the image for me to correct on a screen before sending it to the printing
machine, and there was no data on the back of the prints either, absolutely nothing recording print info,
so I had to remember pretty much every print's filtration by memory power alone, which I was quite good
at back then, but now, at the age of closing in on seventy, ha, there is no way I could do that any more.
I call it riding a wave because the machine balance can be affected by room temperature and the paper
balance changes over time and my monitor needs to be balanced regularly plus how I see something
can be majorly affected by how long I view the screen or if I look away from it momentarily, tho there
is a range of filtration within which most images will look good, but again it depends on the ambient
lighting under which the image is being viewed. Kodak has stopped manufacturing paper so now
we are stuck using Fuji paper which is quite different and with the postal strike? Yikes, we ran out.
I started printing, I read the negs (and positives) with my eye to determine the filtration, as there
were no monitors displaying the image for me to correct on a screen before sending it to the printing
machine, and there was no data on the back of the prints either, absolutely nothing recording print info,
so I had to remember pretty much every print's filtration by memory power alone, which I was quite good
at back then, but now, at the age of closing in on seventy, ha, there is no way I could do that any more.
I call it riding a wave because the machine balance can be affected by room temperature and the paper
balance changes over time and my monitor needs to be balanced regularly plus how I see something
can be majorly affected by how long I view the screen or if I look away from it momentarily, tho there
is a range of filtration within which most images will look good, but again it depends on the ambient
lighting under which the image is being viewed. Kodak has stopped manufacturing paper so now
we are stuck using Fuji paper which is quite different and with the postal strike? Yikes, we ran out.
Most of my images are on a portable HD my daughter gave me, if they were not boy-oh-boy, I would
have been in deep doo doo a couple of times as laptops or desktops fried for one reason or another,
and I did lose a few finished panels once a few years back, before my daughter gave me the laptop
I am using now... though I had the start versions of them, which for some had undergone major changes
since saved as a finished file which I kept working on... any who, I have one of you and one of your mom,
taken as a mirror image with a man (I do not know who he is.) Since they are named by member name it
would be hard for me to determine how many exactly, certainly any I have worked on, and they are mixed
in with other images and personal photos... Oh, I just found another one of you named by your given name.
have been in deep doo doo a couple of times as laptops or desktops fried for one reason or another,
and I did lose a few finished panels once a few years back, before my daughter gave me the laptop
I am using now... though I had the start versions of them, which for some had undergone major changes
since saved as a finished file which I kept working on... any who, I have one of you and one of your mom,
taken as a mirror image with a man (I do not know who he is.) Since they are named by member name it
would be hard for me to determine how many exactly, certainly any I have worked on, and they are mixed
in with other images and personal photos... Oh, I just found another one of you named by your given name.
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Okie dokie (LOL). There have been so many changes in the way we do things... for instance, when
I started printing, I read the negs (and positives) with my eye to determine the filtration, as there
were no monitors displaying the image for me to correct on a screen before sending it to the printing
machine, and there was no data on the back of the prints either, absolutely nothing recording print info,
so I had to remember pretty much every print's filtration by memory power alone, which I was quite good
at back then, but now, at the age of closing in on seventy, ha, there is no way I could do that any more.
I call it riding a wave because the machine balance can be affected by room temperature and the paper
balance changes over time and my monitor needs to be balanced regularly plus how I see something
can be majorly affected by how long I view the screen or if I look away from it momentarily, tho there
is a range of filtration within which most images will look good, but again it depends on the ambient
lighting under which the image is being viewed. Kodak has stopped manufacturing paper so now
we are stuck using Fuji paper which is quite different and with the postal strike? Yikes, we ran out.
I started printing, I read the negs (and positives) with my eye to determine the filtration, as there
were no monitors displaying the image for me to correct on a screen before sending it to the printing
machine, and there was no data on the back of the prints either, absolutely nothing recording print info,
so I had to remember pretty much every print's filtration by memory power alone, which I was quite good
at back then, but now, at the age of closing in on seventy, ha, there is no way I could do that any more.
I call it riding a wave because the machine balance can be affected by room temperature and the paper
balance changes over time and my monitor needs to be balanced regularly plus how I see something
can be majorly affected by how long I view the screen or if I look away from it momentarily, tho there
is a range of filtration within which most images will look good, but again it depends on the ambient
lighting under which the image is being viewed. Kodak has stopped manufacturing paper so now
we are stuck using Fuji paper which is quite different and with the postal strike? Yikes, we ran out.
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Now-a-days people think we wave a magic wand and poof, a picture magically appears, LOL, and
actually, some people kind of always thought that, not having any idea of what was involved, and
some think it takes no time, or that nobody sees what they give us, but I see everything, and am so
glad now that people can edit out what they perhaps may not want others to see. With film that was
not possible, and sometimes I saw too much, and/or people would be very surprised if I spoke with
them and discovered I knew what their pictures were of, for instance one woman who was a local
journalist... when I was speaking with her as she was picking up pics that included her daughter's 8th
birthday party photos, I knew her daughter's name because it had been on the cake. I've read suicide
notes. We also used to do the forensic work of a nearby police department... it was not my usual work
but the woman who was responsible for those print sizes would walk away from her desk refusing to do
it, she did not want to see the grisly photos of prison murders or murder victims within our community...
I found it fascinating. To this day I remember one... um, I looked at the photo this way and that, often we
would say, when we could not make out was a photo was of: it's art! But this clearly was not. I finally
determined there was a hairline, and that was when I realized I was looking at a head with the skin peeled
off the face. But there has been a lot of beauty in what I've seen... tens of millions + of pictures, most likely.
actually, some people kind of always thought that, not having any idea of what was involved, and
some think it takes no time, or that nobody sees what they give us, but I see everything, and am so
glad now that people can edit out what they perhaps may not want others to see. With film that was
not possible, and sometimes I saw too much, and/or people would be very surprised if I spoke with
them and discovered I knew what their pictures were of, for instance one woman who was a local
journalist... when I was speaking with her as she was picking up pics that included her daughter's 8th
birthday party photos, I knew her daughter's name because it had been on the cake. I've read suicide
notes. We also used to do the forensic work of a nearby police department... it was not my usual work
but the woman who was responsible for those print sizes would walk away from her desk refusing to do
it, she did not want to see the grisly photos of prison murders or murder victims within our community...
I found it fascinating. To this day I remember one... um, I looked at the photo this way and that, often we
would say, when we could not make out was a photo was of: it's art! But this clearly was not. I finally
determined there was a hairline, and that was when I realized I was looking at a head with the skin peeled
off the face. But there has been a lot of beauty in what I've seen... tens of millions + of pictures, most likely.
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