Early Experimentation
In the mid to late 80s, when I was in journalism school, I was really learning how to get the most out of a camera. Until this time, I used a camera to capture simple images of people and places. It wasn't until high school, in the early to mid 80s, that I picked up an SLR camera, graduating beyond my old Kodak 110 instamatic . With my father's Minolta SR-T 101, I learned how to use aperture and shutter speeds to my advantage, and thanks to my buddy, Stuart, I learned how to develop black-and-white film and print photos. But in journalism school, our photography teacher had us focus (no pun intended) on more than the basics to get photos that stood out. I took a lot of really crappy photos during that time but I learned a lot more, and my photos started getting better. It was during this period that I bought my Minolta X-700 camera and a zoom lens, which gave me more flexibility and was more advanced than the SR-T 101 (though, these days, when I feel like shooting 35mm film, th...
