Tuesday, March 16, 2010

More Musings and questions....


4 x5 and 8 x 10 provide great control over perspective  - (long list of elements that are related to the camera controls)
The larger film size, image area, provides greater flexibility for high quality enlargements.

I have also heard it said that large format shooting

  • Makes you slow down and really think about the image, composition, lighting etc ...(yet I have seen some  really badly composed images, poorly lit etc ...)
  • Forces one to use a light meter, consequently get better exposures (yet I have seen some very bad exposures on large format...)
  • Why can't you do that if you shoot any format and are mindful?
  • Do we require the physicality of large format to force us to do what we should be doing anyways?
  • ....

"I miss film"
What doe this mean?
What do you miss?
Do you miss dropping it off and picking it up from the lab? Hours in the darkroom?
Is it the fact that you can't see the image and your results until you drop off and pick up?
Is it the suspense and having to wait?
Or is it the look?
If it is the look, what about the "look" makes it different from digital, other than the grain structure?

I have adapted the notion, that the tool should be chosen based on what will give you the best result for your message. The tool should not matter and should be transparent.
Personally, I do not miss film.
I do want to work with analog processes like Lumen prints and go back to doing more historic process like Platinum, Cyanotype, vanDyke Browns etc... Why? nostalgia and some of the effects you can't quite achieve in digital output, although, today you can achieve MANY. its cool, I like the way working with these materials makes me feel.....

Are we really referring to the method of working and how that makes us feel?

What are your personal thoughts on how you see the difference between film and digital?

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