Amateur Photographer

Final Analysis

This was going to have been a portrait: a Kodachrome from the 1940s. I wanted to illustrate how much easier things are nowadays, with better colour, faster lenses, and much higher ISO speeds. But I got side-tracked. That’s one of the joys of browsing through the photographs in the Library

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