HT1024 - The Romance of the Camera

In the days of film and the wet darkroom, the hidden secret was that for every 60th of a second in the field, there were hours and hours in the darkroom and print finishing. It's always been one of the chief misunderstandings of photography by the general public that it is an instantaneous art medium. To the general public, being a photographer means being out in the world clicking away — and perhaps that has led us to the Instagram generation.