This clip got me going through my photos app realising it’s a lot of “note-keeping” so to speak; pics of papers from school and work.
It also got me to pick up my actual camera for the first time in a long time. Its past due to rekindle and old hobby.
My issue with this trend is that so many people believe that just because it’s film photography they think their photos are somehow better despite the same crappy composition, lighting etc.
One of the best thing about film imho is that it makes you think about what you’re looking at because you don’t have unlimited shots and its not cheap. Firing off 30 shots of the same scene is going to get costly (don’t forget you have to have it developed as well).
Good points! My camera (the one I’m talking about in my original post) is “just” a digital camera but I find I’m more deliberate when using that instead of my phone.
I’ll probably not go back to film photography, I find digital photos just as good, but i remember fondly taking my sweet time trying to frame a shot and waiting for the right light. I’ve stopped doing that, turned photography into something passive, just shooting away. This video made me want to actively take photos again.
Loved it! What a great video essay about photography and social norms. Thanks for sharing!
It does give me the urge to print out photos and make physical albums. With digital photos, going through the thousands of images I took during a trip/year always feels like a chore. And sorting them into ‘albums’ feels more like a librarian work than crafting mementoes.
Getting high quality digital prints from digital photos is amazingly cheap these days (for example, I use https://www.photobox.co.uk/photo-printing/photo-prints-6x4 ) Which is also cheaper than professionally developed film - though you should avoid the temptation of photobooks, canvas prints, and so forth except in special circumstances.
So, get into good habits of quickly discarding bad shots (e.g. out of focus), and the worst versions when you have taken multiple shots of the same thing - either in pauses in your photography (avoid chimping) or when you get back home. Then do a round of basic cropping and any lighting adjustments. Perhaps add keywords or star ratings to the photos if that’s your thing. Then consider what is worth printing, and what just kept digitally. Also purge functional shots (such as the pill photos of the video) when no longer useful.
I think with good habits, you’ll spend less time on drudgery than film photography (whether you develop it professionally or yourself), you’ll have moments of admiring your work as you do so (I hope!) and have better results at the end of it all.
Film photography can serve as a useful discipline in thinking about your craft, or be more rewarding as an act of creation, but it won’t save you time or effort.
I bought a cheap and small (400-500€?) color laser printer for my company like 7 years ago
I’m still on the first cartridges and we even printed photos for some time on photo paper
Worked really well and looked much better, than I’d have thoughtSo maybe this is an alternative for some, just to try it out
Oh, if you’ve got a good printer (and ink for it!!!) then, yes, use them (especially if someone else is paying for it) - but I’ve pretty much given up on home colour printing these days - the ink is too expensive, and and runs out too fast. And the online equivalents are I suspect cheaper than home printing if you add all the costs in, and often better quality.
As said, laser printer
This thing goes on and on and seems to never get empty
Also it also doesn’t dry out like ink cartridgesI’m really happy with it and it wasn’t expensive
Out of interest, does he ever address the irony of using a youtube video (i.e. digital photography) - that in passing i found too long (i.e. too much digital content, completing the irony) to complete watching - to praise film photography?
You don’t need to be either pro digital xor pro film. You can like and use both for what they are good at…
OK, I’ll bite - apart from imposing discipline on choosing your shot, and more human control over the process if you develop at home, what are the benefits of film over digital? My working assumption is that if you start with RAW format from any decent sensor, and comparable lenses, you can produce anything you could produce by choice of film, development process or similar - but perhaps I’m wrong!
OK, I’ll bite - apart from imposing discipline on choosing your shot, and more human control over the process if you develop at home, what are the benefits of film over digital?
Some people seem to like it. Not everything needs justification.
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YouTube is digital cinematography, not digital photography.
Uh-huh, and the significant technical differences between those are?
(Hint: a digital video is a sequence of digital photos, usually with digital compression taking advantage of limited changes between adjacent photos, but mostly the same principles as, say, RAW to JPG compression)
