Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
One of my reservations about using digital cameras - especially higher spec'd ones - is the images can be too clean, too clinical looking. Coming from shooting film for five years - and enjoying the natural grain inherent in film, especially with expired or cross processed or redscaled treatments - this contrast was exacerbated further.… Continue reading Digital Photography – Dumbed Down And Dirty
Returning to using a DSLR this month has reminded me how much more precise one has to be when exposing a digital sensor. It's also made me realise how much easier I had it when shooting film. The vast majority of film I used was consumer grade colour negative film - Fuji C200 and Superia… Continue reading Why Exposure Latitude Makes Film Photography Easier Than Digital
When 35mm film was my main format for photography, a busy month for me was perhaps 12 rolls of film, or three per week. The most I ever remember having processed in a single month was 15, and an average was more like eight rolls - a major photowalk per week where I shot a… Continue reading Why I’ve Shot The Equivalent Of 27 Rolls Of Film In A Fortnight
Through January to March I used just one camera each month. Digital compacts from Canon, Fuji and Panasonic ably navigated me through my chosen One Month, One Camera project for 2019. The benefits were very satisfying, not least of all because I eliminated the painful debate before each photowalk about which camera to take. With only… Continue reading One Month, One Camera – July 2019 (I) – Pentax K30
A phrase commonly heard around photography sites is "storage is cheap". Five or 10 or 20 years ago, storing your digital images (either from digital cameras, or digital scans of film negatives) needed much greater investment, whether for the memory cards in digital cameras, or the hard drives or cloud storage you used to back… Continue reading Storage May Be Cheap But Is It Ruining Your Photography?
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