HELLO. I'M DEAN OROS.
Believe it or not, I wasn't really a fan of photography when I first began shooting. A television and radio broadcasting student at the time, my first exposure (see what I did there?) didn't exactly foretell my future passion for still photography.
I practised black and white documentary, and portraiture. I developed film by hand and made prints in a dark room. My first camera was a second hand 35mm Pentax K1000 with one 50mm lens.
As it is today, developing film was expensive, especially for a starving student who ate too much pasta. Because of this stills didn't really interest me. It was set on the back burner for a very long time.
Thirty years and several cameras later, I often continue to work in black and white. While I've shot digitally most of my photographic career, I draw from that long-ago semester of formal study where I learned the essentials of light, and the inner workings of a camera.
