I shoot a lot of photos at techno raves and I shoot exclusively on 800 ISO film rated at 3200 ISO. The environments are dark with lots of movement. Not being able to see the results until I get the roll developed keeps me in the moment and I love the delayed gratification I get when the photos turn out well.
Having first learned film photography and processing my own film and printing my own prints I wholly embrace digital photography because it allows me to keep in the moment. Everyone seems to be forgetting how ungodly expensive film photography is compared to digital photography. Decades ago the film cost $0.25-$0.35 per frame and you were quite cognizant of that fact while shooting. Add in exposure bracketing and you were paying $1.25 per shot, and again that was decades ago. A roll of film having 24 frames basically represented 5 shots. You had to have several rolls of film and you were constantly managing that resource instead of keeping in the moment.
With digital photography I can bracket all I want. A lot of cameras can do that automatically. I don't have to worry about running out of film, nor do I have to worry about all the money I'm spending in procuring, processing, and printing that film. I don't have to change rolls of film either. That keeps me in the moment.
Just like in the old days I go back after the shoot and look at what I got and discard the rubbish. I do prefer dodging and burning by hand in the darkroom, but I've made my peace with Gimp over the years and I've learned how to use it to maximal effect - and I can do way more than was ever possible in the darkrooms of yore. It really is progress.
"He shot thousands upon thousands of rolls of film at 36 exposures a roll, meticulously numbering each roll before sending it off to be developed a process he had no interest in by magazines or photo agencies."
“After I photograph I wait quite a while before I actually look at the stuff; a year, two years – sometimes longer. I need to be distant from the subjective experience so I can see what the photograph itself contains.”
“In fact, the work I'm looking at now is from 2002 [the interview was taking place in 2007]. But that time is a good lag time, because what happens is that I forget about the subjective experience of taking the picture, which is always pleasurable. When I look at the contact sheets, I want to be free of that. I want to just look at the photograph and see if it's interesting.”
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python 3 (NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, Dask,
TensorFlow, Selenium), R (dplyr, ggplot2), Unix, SQL, GraphQL, various miscellaneous OOP/functional languages
Other skills:
BS in Statistics (experimental design, data analysis, optimization, machine learning)
Public speaking/communication (professional consultation experience, former nationally ranked collegiate debater)
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1438wKfqWf-UxNnu8E64yfuSBs2sfypID/view?usp=sharing
Email: My username @gmail.com
I will be graduating this May and I'm looking for full-time opportunities that will leverage my dual computer science and statistics background and my communication skills.
I'll be graduating this May 2019 from the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities with dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Statistical Science. For the past 6 months I've been interning at a commerce analytics company where I built a RESTful web service in Python 3.7, and prior to that I worked at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute where I gained experience with various big data frameworks.
The software engineering position sounds like it'd be a great fit for me given my statistics background. I also have experience applying/designing machine learning models and completed the graduate level ML classes at the U of M.
Asking candidly, would it be worth it for me to apply? Or is this position not open to new graduates? I am very interested and I'd love to discuss this opening with you more by phone or email, if possible.
Some of my favorites from recent months:
* https://www.instagram.com/p/CZsFxpmvp-J/ or https://www.reddit.com/gallery/snqwjq
* https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca5ESgmu25m/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/tb5qku/bliss_contax...