Hi, This is something I've thought about for the past year or so, maybe more. I've even polled the list and asked if those using digital had found that their photography had changed at al. IIRC, most all said it hadn't other than that they may be making more exposures. But I suspect that for many people it has. On a couple of other forums and in some other venues, I'm seeing more "cute" photos, flower shots, family snaps, and so on, compared to more "serious" work that was produced before the more common use of digital. I know I take more "happy snaps" and have moved away from documentary somewhat, and I'm shooting far more color because that's what digital delivers from the camera.
Frankly, I believe digital does change the way some people shoot wrt subjects and the interpretation of those subjects. Bruce Dayton and I had a brief discussion about that a few weeks ago. One of the things mentioned was how exposure choices to avoid noise in shadows and dark areas effect the look of photos. There seems to be more brighter pics floating around. Anyway, this is something I'd like to explore more as I do believe that digital does, in many instances and for many photographers, alter the look and subjects of their photography. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > On Nov 5, 2006, at 4:10 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > ... I'm running into more and more film > > shooters these days, both folks who > > have never moved to digital and those > > who have but have decided to > > move back to film or incorporate more > > film use in their photography. ... > > There is a deep psychological rift between working with film and > working with digital capture, which can be recognized from all the > disagreeable debate and vitriol which pervades the mixed photo forums > in the past several years. I've been writing notes for an article > about it recently. > > I haven't shot any film at all for several years now, I've got twenty > plus years of digital imaging experience in total. I'm thoroughly > acclimated to the experience of working with digital capture. Despite > that, I worked with film cameras from 1962 to 2002 ... long enough to > have a lot of empathy and nostalgia for the endeavor. > > I'm interested in that psychological rift and how it affects the > experience and expression of photography. This says that I will most > likely dust off a couple of my remaining film cameras sometime soon > and explore the Rift. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
