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One of the things you will find out about me is that I am not the sort of person that is into instant gratification...
I am a student doing a research higher degree in bacterial comparative genetics - There is plenty of doing, but most of it is waiting...
My photography is like that too - I like to photograph what I see, and I don't mind waiting around to grab the perfect moment.
analogue photography and darkroom printmaking are a passion - any chance I get to go work in my darkroom I take. Unfortunately these days It is something I have less and less time to do - When I do get the chance it is such a joy to see light and chemistry in action.
Lately I have been shooting digital; it is so easy to just grab hundreds of photos and sort them out in post, but I don't... I shoot digital like I shoot film - I slow down, I want to see the perfect moment and take it, not glimpse at it and take 50 photos and hope one of them works out.
I sometimes set myself limits on the number of frames I can take... in multiples of 36 - just like film.
Most of my digital is shot on the Canon D10, not my DSLR... why? because its compact, its rugged and its waterproof. And when you do most of your photography on long hikes in the rainforest, thats perfect! It also helps that it takes a pretty good photo!!
Equipment -
Film:
Nikkormat ft2
mamiya c330
Bell & Howell/Canon Dial 35
Agfa Record I
Agfa Billy Record
Agfa Isoly 100
Digital:
Canon 450D
Canon D10
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Testimonials (1)
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Jim O'Connell says:
"It's been difficult for me to write a testimonial for Eileen that doesn't come off sounding like a geeky pickup line or marriage proposal...
But here she is, equally at home behind her inquisitive Nikkormat, contemplatively peering at the world through the top of her Mamiya, up to her elbows in a dark bag or a tankful of developer. Probably just as much at home patching a flat or replacing a bottom bracket with a pin spanner and lock ring wrench, too.
In a way, I'm glad she's way the hell down there in Australia, or I know for sure she'd scoop me on every old bottle of Rodinal sitting on the back of a dusty shelf at some forgotten shop in Tokyo."8th August, 2006
- Joined:
- August 2004
- Hometown:
- Brisbane
- I am:
- Female and Taken
- Occupation:
- Higher Degree Research Student/Scientist
- Website:
- Light and Chemistry