Howdy to all gathered here, for the love of, and knowledge about, all things photographic, but centered around Canon RF gear.
My name is David Franklin, and I have very recently moved from my longtime home in suburban Detroit, Michigan to my new home near Raleigh, NC.
I had been a Forum member at DPReview since 2002, but I had been a lurker there for a long time before that. I have been (and still am) a professional photographer for 45 or so years, starting out, after a brief time as an assistant, shooting editorial work, mostly of people, for local and national magazines like Time, Newsweek, People, Forbes, Sports Illustrated and many others across the country. I also did a whole lot of corporate and product work as well. Eventually, after doing a lot of car stuff for Motor Trend, Car & Driver and Automobile magazines - and then corporate stuff for many car companies on location - I transitioned to shoot mostly cars for corporate and advertising uses, while building a large and well equipped studio for that purpose.
I was a relative pioneer in digital photo imaging, starting in the mid 1990's, when I started scanning my work on in-house drum scanners and, using some of the first desk-top computers capable of handling "big" files, retouching and compositing automobile images for my commercial clients. In retrospect, the details of doing this are somewhat comical given our current tech, but when it was happening, it was startling and somewhat amazing. I shot every format from 35mm to 8"x10" film, but was always looking for a complete digital capture workflow to eliminate film altogether. I found the first instance of this in my initial horribly expensive Phase One back and compatible camera systems - which got me to first start reading DPReview - and then, grateful for the lower prices, my later Nikon D!X's. But, I didn't start posting in the original Canon DSLR forums until I switched my "handheld" camera system to a couple of Canon 1DsII's and began the journey to drop medium format digital altogether. I've shot Canon ever since, first with DSLR's, and for the last few years with my RF system - first the "R", the the R5. I'm working a little less and a little slower in the past several years, closing my studio and working only on location, but have been able to spend some time to share some things I've learned and learn new ones from others, by participating in DPR, and now RF Shooters forum, among you all who share my passion for photography.
My name is David Franklin, and I have very recently moved from my longtime home in suburban Detroit, Michigan to my new home near Raleigh, NC.
I had been a Forum member at DPReview since 2002, but I had been a lurker there for a long time before that. I have been (and still am) a professional photographer for 45 or so years, starting out, after a brief time as an assistant, shooting editorial work, mostly of people, for local and national magazines like Time, Newsweek, People, Forbes, Sports Illustrated and many others across the country. I also did a whole lot of corporate and product work as well. Eventually, after doing a lot of car stuff for Motor Trend, Car & Driver and Automobile magazines - and then corporate stuff for many car companies on location - I transitioned to shoot mostly cars for corporate and advertising uses, while building a large and well equipped studio for that purpose.
I was a relative pioneer in digital photo imaging, starting in the mid 1990's, when I started scanning my work on in-house drum scanners and, using some of the first desk-top computers capable of handling "big" files, retouching and compositing automobile images for my commercial clients. In retrospect, the details of doing this are somewhat comical given our current tech, but when it was happening, it was startling and somewhat amazing. I shot every format from 35mm to 8"x10" film, but was always looking for a complete digital capture workflow to eliminate film altogether. I found the first instance of this in my initial horribly expensive Phase One back and compatible camera systems - which got me to first start reading DPReview - and then, grateful for the lower prices, my later Nikon D!X's. But, I didn't start posting in the original Canon DSLR forums until I switched my "handheld" camera system to a couple of Canon 1DsII's and began the journey to drop medium format digital altogether. I've shot Canon ever since, first with DSLR's, and for the last few years with my RF system - first the "R", the the R5. I'm working a little less and a little slower in the past several years, closing my studio and working only on location, but have been able to spend some time to share some things I've learned and learn new ones from others, by participating in DPR, and now RF Shooters forum, among you all who share my passion for photography.
