The Irish Professional Photographers' Association exhibition prompts a look at what is involved in taking and processing a photograph.
Lyall Smith Laboratories on Terenure Road Rathgar process film for the Irish amateur photography market. The company operates on a large scale, dealing with about four thousand rolls a day during the summer holiday period.
The photographs on display at this year's Irish Professional Photographer’s Association (IPPA) exhibition in the Mansion House are in a different league,
To them photography is a job but also a mix of art, skill and science.
Ricky Stephens is president of the IPPA and the organiser of the festival. He describes his chosen career as
Concentration really more than hard work.
Back at Lyall Smith Laboratories, laboratory manager Jim Quinn is used to dealing with every photographic mistake that can possibly happen,
He’s seen every cut off head around.
Photography is a huge industry, with cameras costing thousands of pounds. This should not deter beginners however, as those in the field strongly recommend learning about photography first before purchasing an expensive camera. The advice to people from the Irish Professional Photographers' Association is to,
Join your local camera club.
This episode of 'Newsround’ was broadcast on 23 April 1978. The reporter is Brendan O’Brien.
