I hate digital

ramonesman said:
Being a photographic printer for 18 years

Any photograph can be destroyed by terrible printing be it colour, black and white or slides
At least with modern technology we have the ability to tweak our own pictures and enhance the quality

I see pluses for both sides of this subject
At the end of the day nothing is better it's all down to the person viewing it

Even bad pictures have captured that memory for someone
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This is very true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that.

Technically, with film its the skill of the photographer to capture a latent image that is within the scope of the film emulsion, coupled with the skill of the print process to show that image at its very best. With Digital there is an ability to tweak and correct that is almost endless.

Thats one of the reasons i enjoy digital so much nowadays - i have memories still of trying to tell wedding photographers that , actually, its YOUR fault for not properly balancing and softening the ambient light with reflectors. Thats why the wedding dress is a washed out white blob with no detail to be seen......

I could probably still bore for England on the subject of reprocity failure in film emulsions, when trying to capture that sunset correctly. "yes i am aware the sky wasnt brown when you took the picture" :)

Imo film photography is very much like playing vinyl records - its lovely, but it has its own problems.
 
digital photography has been the worst thing to happen to photography.

I am not talking about the incessant trash being produced.

Seriously, seen lately how nude photography is the ONLY way to get to be a "real photographer"? Nude is fine, but when you look at an image and actually have to ask "its a nice room, id say a french palace circa 1690. SO why did they put the naked woman on the bed?" you have a problem.

Look on the lomography website, do a search for nude. Youll see so many bad photos its not funny. And so many women dont seem smart enough to know they are being photographed when taking showers, sleeping nude, or sunbathing outisde a big window its beyond sad.

I dont mean the "shoot on 100fps burst mode for 5 minutes and hope you can get a shot worth putting into photoshop".

You can get auto winders and 170 frame magazines for most film cameras. It just COSTS a bit, Lomo makes a low quality plastic hand wind film camera that uses 35mm film. I have seen online articles on how people built crappy film magazines to use factory bulk rolls of 100' film with it.

Im talking about the lack of skill that has come with digital. Now a person like me who goes on a photography forum and says "use a lens hood and a lens filter to PREVENT lens flare" gets beaten and banned from the forum. While everyone else who just purchases a special "lens flare removal AI program" for photoshop or lightroom, get called "heros of photography for such great post production skills".


yeah MAKING facial hair in photoshop...




back in college i spent alot of time doing stuff like this. 2001-2003 for someting to do.
 
a real photographer for example, would just wait till the subject was in need of a shave and trim to need.
In the other ones, a photographer would wait till night time to do the needed shots..
In the last sample, a real photographer would build the set to need and run with it.
 
a real photographer for example, would just wait till the subject was in need of a shave and trim to need.
In the other ones, a photographer would wait till night time to do the needed shots..
In the last sample, a real photographer would build the set to need and run with it.
 
I do agree that many pictures are now unnecessarily altered and manipulated - its gone way beyond simple enhancement.

I remember talking to a press photographer back in the 80's at the lab and he was saying that he had gone on photo-journalism courses in the 60's, where they taught the twin necessary skills of composition and technical mastery. He told me that high end photo courses used to have a final examination whereby students were sent out with a sealed camera and had to make judgments about taking a good picture or leaving film unused and were marked accordingly on the overall quality of the images they turned in, with points deducted for poor pictures.

So they could pass with just 3 good pictures or fail with 20 average ones.

Like Henri Cartier-Bresson and his famed "decisive moments" - forming the scene in your head first and bringing the camera up to take that picture at exactly the right moment - his work is still captivating to look at.

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Anthorn said:
For example Boots does photo processing but only at Boots Photo Stores amd its all digital where you connect your camera or mobile phone to a machine, add your photos and then order your prints and then 10 days later you get a message that your prints are ready. Yes there are services available for developing film and printing film but it's expensive.

Are you confused? I'm referring to a roll of film which is loaded into a camera which then produces negatives when exposed which are then developed and printed. Or alternatively a slide film which is only developed by a more lengthy process.






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