Ah, the film days. I came back from Vietnam with my Nikon FTN, built a dark room in my sisters garage. Beseler 23c enlarger. I have a Nikon d850, an incredible camera, AI,d my original FTN Nikkor lenses and shoot with them on the d850. the 55mm 1.2 still delivers. photograph- light, composition, impact--and some luck. Thanks for posting this.
Glad you enjoyed it. I remember the darkroom scenes being a challenge. Shot on film there was no instant replay just a nervous wait for the film to be processed and printed.
Thanks for posting this Steve. Fay was an incredibly important British photographer. A real trail blazer. So sad that she died relatively young. This way, new audiences can se her work!
She was a unique and interesting figure in British photography but while admiring her dedication (and the background story to her motivation) I found her rural imagery very dated at the time, little moved on from the 50s editorial style of Bill Brandt. Meanwhile her direct contemporaries, The New Topographic photographers, were producing work that was a major development in how we look at landscape. For me, her most striking picture was Meall Mòr, Glencoe, 1988, a great book cover image, but actually quite at variance with her usual style, and a hint at what could have been.
Ah, the film days. I came back from Vietnam with my Nikon FTN, built a dark room in my sisters garage. Beseler 23c enlarger. I have a Nikon d850, an incredible camera, AI,d my original FTN Nikkor lenses and shoot with them on the d850. the 55mm 1.2 still delivers. photograph- light, composition, impact--and some luck. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for sharing this, Steve. It's a marvelous insight into Fay's process and thinking. Well done on getting those darkroom shots btw!
Glad you enjoyed it. I remember the darkroom scenes being a challenge. Shot on film there was no instant replay just a nervous wait for the film to be processed and printed.
Thanks for posting this Steve. Fay was an incredibly important British photographer. A real trail blazer. So sad that she died relatively young. This way, new audiences can se her work!
Thank you very much for this documentary. I didn't know her. You made a great service!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for posting this, very interesting. Sounds like Melvyn Bragg is the narrator so possibly an episode of the Southbank Show
Yep. Probably my first South Bank Show, but not my last fortunately. Such a shame it's now finished
This lady got me interested in photography in 1981 !!
Good to hear
Had the great fortune to go on one of her workshops.
She was a unique and interesting figure in British photography but while admiring her dedication (and the background story to her motivation) I found her rural imagery very dated at the time, little moved on from the 50s editorial style of Bill Brandt. Meanwhile her direct contemporaries, The New Topographic photographers, were producing work that was a major development in how we look at landscape.
For me, her most striking picture was Meall Mòr, Glencoe, 1988, a great book cover image, but actually quite at variance with her usual style, and a hint at what could have been.
Imagine the freedom she’d have using digital, I bought land when I first took up photography
True, but a lot of the digital generation are using film now!
I would not waste the time with digital imaging.
Film photography is an artwork medium.
@@stevehaskett100 I occasionally goes back but digital is much more convenient, and cheaper of course
@@kevin-parratt-artist so is digital , mo so in fact
True. A good compromise is to shoot film and digitise the neg. Still more expensive than pure digital. Personally I am just digital now. Canon5DMk2
How can you call yourself a photographer when some bugger else does the printing? Only a camera operator.
So am I not a cameraman. I shot the footage but it was processed and printed in a lab?
Shut up and go down on me idiot
@raybeaumont7670 I'm afraid that's quite a silly thing to say.
@ I'm talking about stills - on negative film.
@ Real photographers have ALWAYS done their own processing and printing. They are masters of the darkroom as well as pressing the tit