A lot has happened in photography in the 50 years since I had my first camera as a birthday present from my mother, but nothing has revolutionised things quite as much as the digital image. As a photographer who is often photographing musicians in poor lighting, using high iso speeds and trying to balance light, these advances have served to make it possible for me to work in a way that was never possible before. At first it was a steep learning curve because I (and many like me) assumed in innocence that because I could take a good photo with film I would be fine - all I were doing was replacing the film with a chip wasn't I! Ha, how wrong I was, and how much I had to learn abut the new medium, but I think I am now pretty much there. However, what about all the images I have on that old faithful (and now gone) Kodachrome? Well, I have been scanning and playing with a few of my old images lately and found they are still very usable and now are beginning to have some historical meaning , however small. Above is just one example of a shot taken in 1992 of the great blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon. I converted it to black and white to get rid of the horrid red colour cast of the original which was shot in a red lit marquee, and I think it works just fine!
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