bradwwood
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Hello
I'm from Los Angeles but now live in the Pacific Northwest. My mother was always behind a camera when I grew up, so naturally I took several years of photography in school during the late '70's and early 80's. I had a Nikon FM and FE. After that I went off to Grand Cayman for a year with my Nikonos IV graduation gift (high school graduation).
When I came back, I went to work with my dad in the film business as a Grip (lighting and rigging, works with Director of Photography ... if you don't know
). I did that for 10 years until I got hurt on the job, which led me into the tech world. I worked on a LOT of different stuff and really was there to be a part of old school filmmaking where CGI was just starting to be a thing. I did some low to medium budget big screen stuff, but my bread and butter was local, national, and international, TV ads. I excelled at product shots and preferred that tedious work Vs the more laborious location work.
I've been in tech now for a few decades and gearing up for retirement at the end of this year. I'm exiting as the VP of Information Systems for a $2B organization.
I've had a lot of artistic hobbies requiring a shop of some sort and all through that time I've been snapshot guy with cheap handheld digitals and lately just my iPhone 15 Pro.
As we are in the downsizing process and getting ready to move to the Guadalahara area of Mexico, I've decided to go back into photography as a serious hobby. No longer needing an area for a darkroom, and having a tech background, it seemed like the perfect thing - go back to my roots.
I've always been into table tops / still life, landscape, waterscapes of all kinds, candids, city/street scene, etc. Not so much portrait, model, sports. I've got little to no intentions at turning my hobby into any sort of income generator.
I've quickly discovered the iPhone doesn't give me some control I want, and I've narrowed my focus down to the Sony A7r III
Anyway - I've got a Lightroom Photography account and right now I'm just struggling through the steep learning curve. the DPReview site guys sent me looking for the Lightroom Queen as I'm currently just trying to figure out the relationship between LrC and the web line of products (I've got a basic understanding just after one evening of reading here)
Now I just want to dig into the software and right now I'm focusing on what my work flow will look like, how I will manage the work. Where I will store it. how to avoid going over the 20Gb storage . etc.
I look forward to the ongoing learning.... I think
probably TLDR, but oh well. nice to "meet" everyone
I'm from Los Angeles but now live in the Pacific Northwest. My mother was always behind a camera when I grew up, so naturally I took several years of photography in school during the late '70's and early 80's. I had a Nikon FM and FE. After that I went off to Grand Cayman for a year with my Nikonos IV graduation gift (high school graduation).
When I came back, I went to work with my dad in the film business as a Grip (lighting and rigging, works with Director of Photography ... if you don't know
). I did that for 10 years until I got hurt on the job, which led me into the tech world. I worked on a LOT of different stuff and really was there to be a part of old school filmmaking where CGI was just starting to be a thing. I did some low to medium budget big screen stuff, but my bread and butter was local, national, and international, TV ads. I excelled at product shots and preferred that tedious work Vs the more laborious location work.I've been in tech now for a few decades and gearing up for retirement at the end of this year. I'm exiting as the VP of Information Systems for a $2B organization.
I've had a lot of artistic hobbies requiring a shop of some sort and all through that time I've been snapshot guy with cheap handheld digitals and lately just my iPhone 15 Pro.
As we are in the downsizing process and getting ready to move to the Guadalahara area of Mexico, I've decided to go back into photography as a serious hobby. No longer needing an area for a darkroom, and having a tech background, it seemed like the perfect thing - go back to my roots.
I've always been into table tops / still life, landscape, waterscapes of all kinds, candids, city/street scene, etc. Not so much portrait, model, sports. I've got little to no intentions at turning my hobby into any sort of income generator.
I've quickly discovered the iPhone doesn't give me some control I want, and I've narrowed my focus down to the Sony A7r III
Anyway - I've got a Lightroom Photography account and right now I'm just struggling through the steep learning curve. the DPReview site guys sent me looking for the Lightroom Queen as I'm currently just trying to figure out the relationship between LrC and the web line of products (I've got a basic understanding just after one evening of reading here)
Now I just want to dig into the software and right now I'm focusing on what my work flow will look like, how I will manage the work. Where I will store it. how to avoid going over the 20Gb storage
. etc.I look forward to the ongoing learning.... I think
probably TLDR, but oh well. nice to "meet" everyone
