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Kevin Raber

Kevin Raber

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December 2, 2015

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15 minutes read

Box of Photos - My Wake Up Call

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A table full of old but priceless family images
I have been a photographer all my adult life, beginning in the days of using film.  Back then photography was all about the photo, and especially, about the print.  Until about 1996 I shot all film, and owned a number of different cameras in various film format sizes.  My kit included a Hasselblad, Mamiya RZ’s, Nikons, Olympus, Pentax, Leica, and even the APSC film cameras, which were the last big thing in film cameras.
Priceless - My mother and me as a baby - 61 years ago if this was on my iPhone I wonder if would have something like this?
I had a busy photography studio and my lab bill alone was over $175,000 USD.  I shot a lot of film, both negative and transparency films.  I shot 35mm through 4x5 and the occasional 8x10.  Except for the transparency film everything shot on the negative film eventually found its way back to a print.  The print could be a contact sheet, 4x5 or 4x6 or even 31/2x5 proof and in the end finished prints up t...

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Photography is my passion and has been for 45 plus years. My career in photography has allowed me to travel the world, meet some of the most interesting people on the planet and see things I could never have dreamed of. My goal is to share the passion of pictures taking through photographs and teaching with as many people as I can hoping it brings them as much joy and happiness as it has me. I do this through Rockhopper Workshops and other projects as well as teaching at my Gallery in Indianapolis.
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