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Back on a plane to Auckland, then Hong Kong overnight, then to Beijing. Newark to Chicago, Chicago to Auckland, Auckland to Wellington. My big trip around the world began on Sunday October 25. I hired an assistant – the best one I knew and someone I thought I could travel with: Darren Smith.īut back to Hasselblad….
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Another trip to Birmingham England to photograph their client Bass Taverns was part of the deal. Later trips would take me to Chicago (United Airlines) and Boston (FAA research lab).
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Photographing Unisys clients NZ Telecom in New Zealand started the odyssey, then Beijing for an airline client, then Sweden for a manufacturing company, Czechoslovakia (before the split of the Czech Republic and Slovakia!) for a bank and then Galicia in NW Spain where Unisys powered the regional government. (Actually it was the beginning of being able to do this kind of photo manipulation digitally on a computer and I did the job using Aldus Photostyler.) And it required me to travel around the world! AROUND THE WORLD! Literally all the way around. The images are at the bottom of this post. This was great, it combined the darkroom work I loved and the corporate work I thought I wanted. Like floating paperwork, or tools in the picture. I was summoned to HQ in Blue Bell PA for meetings and learned this was a job that required photographing people in B&W and adding elements of their work to make a photo illustration in the darkroom. They provided computing solutions to the FAA, the world’s airlines, banks, manufacturing facilities, even the systems used by Bass Taverns in England! This was my big break. Remember this is the early 90’s – Unisys was a powerhouse mainframe computer company that had been around under various names since the earliest days of computers. I got a BIG job – the 1992 annual report for Unisys Corporation. That means travel and shooting executives and factory workers and making sketchy industrial places look glamorous or making those guys in suits look handsome and smart without just standing stiffly in front of the camera with their arms crossed. I had been doing photograms for annual reports, book covers and editorial uses and at the same time pursuing regular old corporate annual report photography. It was 1992 and I was just beginning to see some success in the corporate annual report world. No, my memory was a few years later when I had sold off that damned monster and was shooting only with 35mm cameras – Canon T90‘s at the time. I had to send the camera and lenses back for repairs – each of which which took months and reminded me that you can’t afford a Hasselblad unless you can afford several of them as spares. I loved the image quality but I detested how complex it was to use the camera and how it kept breaking. Not just my unpleasant memories of owning a Hasselblad 500ELM and a few lenses. Computing Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing Template:WikiProject Computing Computing articlesWhen I read the shocking news this week that drone maker DJI was buying Hasselblad the venerable camera maker it brought back memories. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. Computer graphics Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer graphics Template:WikiProject Computer graphics computer graphics articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computer graphics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computer graphics on Wikipedia.