Barney Case
Hi Dave,
Let me introduce myself. First off, although my given name is Brian, I am known to the world as Barney. My flickr name is barneycase as is my name on Google Earth/Panoramio.
Following an fairly uneventful childhood in the suburbs west of London I served 31 years as a Met Police Officer, gratefully retiring in 1997. I spent the next 16 years as a self employed driving instructor working to the south east of London and the area around the Kent and Surrey borders. When my wife retired from teaching I packed up my business and we moved to our current location in Deal.
I have been married to Sue for forty one years and we have two children, Margaret who is a Dentist and Iain who is a BSL interpreter. We both try and stay fit with Sue doing Tae Chi and me cycling. We are both voluntary community workers at our local community centre.
My interest in photography goes back to the 1970s and was based very much on my family. Even then I was looking for shots of my children that were more than family snaps. I processed my own pictures in the darkroom I had built in my loft. I attended evening classes and became reasonably proficient. As the children grew the needs of the family and work overtook my opportunity to take pictures. It was during this time that the digital revolution occurred so that when I had time to start snapping again the world had changed. I made a clean break from film and bought my first digital camera.
At was at this point that I found why I was often disappointed with my earlier colour prints which often had a mauve tint. I am, like many men, colour blind in the green part of the spectrum which, when processing prints from colour negatives, affects the complimentary colour, mauve. Many shades of green are a total mystery to me and can appear as blue, grey, or brown. Most greens appear to me just lighter or darker shades of their neighbour. Should make tackling landscapes a hoot.
In 2011 I successfully completed a Photography Institute Diploma of Photography Course, and it was that which spurred me on to take on this BA course. I am not looking to seek employment at the end of the course but I am hoping to improve my photographic eye and thereby my pictures. Seeing a good image after it is taken is one thing but to imagine the image, capture it, and turn it into reality is a big step beyond.
As I work towards this goal I try and see as a camera sees. I find I am taking fewer pictures but am thinking about them more. If you wish to see any of my images the best place is on Google Earth’s Panoramio site under user barneycase.
My main camera gear is Olympus with E3 and an E330 bodies and a section of lenses from 7mm out to 300mm (four thirds). I use a selection of flash guns and some old tungsten lighting heads. I also have a Canon G1X and a G12 that I use as pocket cameras. I run a MacBook Pro and use Photoshop CS5 to process my images.
I anticipate passing the last part of the course and will go forward on that basis. Today I received the Landscape package and I look forward to working through it.
Regards,
Barney Case.
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