Rupert Brun's photostream  

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I have been a keen photographer since the age of 5. My Father was a forensic photographer and taught me the technical skills of photography, developing and printing in black and white and colour. At the age of 19, I was a trainee BBC TV Cameraman but was (quite rightly) sacked for being no good at the job.

I have previously used a variety of cameras, mostly medium format, which I liked because I found it much easier to compose a good picture by looking at a screen than by looking through a viewfinder. This made "point and shoot" digital cameras very attractive to me and I started with a Sony camera which took pictures on a floppy disk. I soon found I was having more fun with my digital camera than with my large medium format outfit, despite the difference in quality. I've now sold most my film cameras and gone digital, though I still have a Pentax Spotmatic and an Olympus OM2. I especially enjoy photographing simple subjects with interesting textures or lighting. I like to get it right in the camera rather than relying on lots of work on the computer after I have taken the shot - though I do use Lightroom to correct converging verticals when needed – so much easier than in the days of rising fronts and swing backs!

I'm @BarwickGreen on Twitter.

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