My Photography Career Part 2
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- Here is Part 2 of my Photography Career as requested by so many of my Subscribers ! hope you all enjoy it ! Part the THREE to come later -- keep watching ! If you wish to help my Channel Expenses such as films, chemicals, Inks ! Etc Etc please look at THIS link here : buymeacoffee.c...
I love Peter, he's a legend ❤️
😅The ghost part is great. I have not done microscopic photos but I did have a project of making b&w reversal slides from pictures in a book and other photos for school. The process for reversal was fun but scary, when you had to expose the film to light and then put it back in the can to finish processing I was always nervous. 😂
Peter is our British photography grandfather. Much respect good sir. Thank you for all the interesting work you have done through out your life.
Peter the David Bailey of Essex!
When the hand is a knocking, the bed will soon be rocking! : )
Thanks for sharing your photographic history with us.
I will now have to find and review part 1.
Format snobbery was rife in editorial work. There were numerous colour magazines on every subject under the sun, all in need of photographs, and pretty much all of them wanted roll film slide shots. Of course, 35mm was good enough for the Sunday Times colour supplement and other high end publications, but not for hobby magazines in W H Smith. The real reason for this is picture editors couldn't be bothered walking over to a lightbox and looking through a loupe, even if they owned such things. They wanted to sit in their chair and hold the slide up to the nearest window. This lead to the popularity of 6 x 4.5cm cameras, which roughly matched an A4 page, and were less expensive than 6 x 6 and larger 120 versions. You could buy slide mounts in every conceivable mask, including square cropped to A4 shape, which saved buying a prism head. Or just give the picture editor a square for them to crop, which they did anyway.
Larger cameras lasted longer in the press pack than they needed to, and you can find 1960s films of photographers using 35mm, various 120 and even large format press cameras. Picture editors simply didn't trust photographers to be able to compose a shot, and would often print from a tiny segment of the negative. This attitude lead to the establishment of Magnum agency, where highly regarded photographers could market their photographs as they were intended to be seen.
35mm negatives could be duped to 6x6 format.
@@arricammarques1955 Yes they could, but editorial photography for hobby magazines was not a big payer, and the cost of duplication would have been uneconomic.
My dad had a Puch Alpine scooter in the 1960ies. (Puch was an Austrian brand) I got one a few years ago to restore but I'm only half through it, TBH. Puch branded things are quite expensive here, the nostalgia factor, mainly. Everyone knows someone who had a scooter, a motorbike or a moped of that brand or had one themselves. Good memories and thanks for another interesting video!
Such a Legend! Thanks Peter
15:50 As the kids say, "oooofff"
Thank you for posting this - very entertaining!
Brilliant 👏 Pete , the varied jobs youve had!
You can find Part 1 the next one along on my channel
I’m your newest fan! I’d love to hear about your medium format experiences.
Thank you Peter for sharing! It’s always great to hear your photographic Journeys. I have used many medium format systems, I will say for all of my printing needs, 6x6 has been perfect, I can print a square up to 24x24 and a 13x19 by cropping and the results are still superb. I have obtained these results with the Rolleiflex 2.8D, Hasselblad 500 C/M and Bronica SQ-A.
I'm sure you've forgotten more than most will ever know Peter. Great insight into your life and thoroughly entertaining.. Hope you going to do a part 3.. And many more. : )
What a great raconteur you are Mr Elgar , I had a real bad do tonight and your stories cheered me up and settled me down at the same time. I remember in the 1980s someone showed me Polaroid B&W reversal film, I had a go of it and thought it was great. Unfortunately they discontinued it, I'd love to shoot it today, so easy to develop as well. As they say on my planet, live long and prosper , and I'm doing the wave but you can't see me. Best wishes Jake E.
Great story Peter. You certainly worked hard at a job you loved. Keith
Brilliant, what a fantastic career. Lots of different types of photography. Thank you for sharing these interviews.
Jack of All Trades and Master of Many. Looking forwards to the next part Boss.
Wonderful! Thank you Peter.
Good afternoon Peter!
Another great story session, Peter!
Thank you for sharing your perspective Peter! Quite the life you've led!!
Yes and never 'Made My Fortune' though !
Enjoyed that, very interesting.
Great video.