About a week ago I ran into a friend at a party. He said that digital
has ruined his photography. When every press of the shutter would cost
him money, he'd think about every shot, and that the best pictures he
ever took were with a view camera. He knows that in theory he can take
the same care with digital but he says he can't.
The last time I shot a lot of film was at Burning Man in 2010. I shot
about 8 rolls of film with my Argus C3. Not to be cool, or stylish, but
because when it was that dusty I didn't want to bring the expensive and
delicate DSLRs out. I also shot about 2,000 frames with the DSLRs when
it wasn't so dusty out, and/or at night when film wouldn't work.
I found that the rhythm of shooting film and digital varied
tremendously, as much as did the results. There are things that I
absolutely love about the process of shooting film. To be honest
though, if I were shooting film professionally, particularly landscape
or studio, I'd use my DSLR in much the way that people used to use
Polaroids to make sure everything was right before taking shots where I
wouldn't know if it was right for hours or days.
There are also things that I loved about working in the darkroom, though
I've found that I can do almost anything in lightroom that I used to do
in the darkroom, and do it better, and more consistently from one
version of a frame to the next.
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Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est)
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