The Dark Rooms of... Neil Milton

The Dark Rooms of... is an interview series in which a photographer talks about his or her darkrooms, the digital and the mental, or technical and inspirational. What makes you click?

In this edition of The Dark Rooms of… we focus on the Scottish street photographer Neil Milton

By the way, if you haven’t read the previous 9 interviews, you can find them in the archive.

Here we go.

Who are you?

I'm a Shy though loquacious, youthfully middle-aged, Scottish street photographer, photography teacher, writer, and critic based in Warsaw, Poland. I'm formerly the owner and manager of the too many fireworks record label. Now, I'm the writer of the Photos, mostly street photography newsletter.

Technical

Do you think technique is important?

I do. I think it is important to understand technique so we can decide what to what to use and what to ignore. Technique is a broad term, I suppose it encompasses composition, form, lighting, exposure, and even footwork when it comes to street photography. When I learned to discard program modes and work only in manual, my own photography took a great leap forward. I had control rather than letting the camera think for me. Not only was that exper…