While I was an undergrad, I took all the photography classes my small liberal arts college offered. I took them because it helped me remain sane amidst the stress of all the studying. I found evenings in the dark room relaxing (yes, this was in ancient times before digital photography really took off).
While the process of developing and printing film no longer really applies, the image-composition ideas I learned continue to inform my work as a pastor. I remember the time my photography professor, Greg Shchrek, took me aside and told me I had to work on my printing skills. I would spend hours trying to print a negative just right, "burning" (giving more light) and "dodging" (giving less light) different parts of the image. My own eye for what makes an image "good" or "bad" was slowly being trained by my professor's master eye. After four years of toiling in the dark room, I received the ultimate compliment from him. Looking at my final project, he declared that I had made the most of the ...
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