Re: Digital versus film

Most posts in this thread concentrate on the advantages of digital
photography. Are there any advantages remaining to film? Larger prints, or
what else?

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It isn't cheating to correct images in PS but it isn't photography
either. The shooter you hired was right though, with film you had to
be good, now you only have to be good at Photoshop. I personely no
longer photograph weddings because it has become a race to the bottom
in price and quality. Digital while it may look good to the untrained
eye is not as good as film. Someday it will be, but not today.

I often get in discussions with digital enthusiasts. People that just
picked up a camera yesterday and because they can manipulate their
pictures in Photo shop believe themselves to be the next Ansel Adams
of course they never have any work to show me which is a little like
that fish you almost caught here is some of what I usually say to
them.



Every time I go to a show to sell my work invariably someone will
come up to me and ask me why I still use film. They seem surprised
that in this digital age someone would still make photographs
the old fashioned way. It so much easier to do on the computer they
will tell
me and just the same and from their standpoint this is true. Digital
photographs
are more then adequate to the task, of creating a representation of
reality.
They can adequatly record a face, a location, a vacation or special
event in
someone's life.
That is not what I am doing however, and
digital photographs for all their simplicity and ease do not produce
the lustrous
whites and true blacks of traditional photography nor do they come
close to
the resolution that can be achieved with large format. In my work I
am trying
to capture a sense of light that I have yet to see in even the best
digital
prints. Film for all its' apparent shortcomings to those who never
learned to
control it, achieves what CCD'S at the present time do not. But
beyond this
argument of ease and achievement is the fact that this is Art and
not pictures
of your vacation, your family or the car that you drive.

I no more need to explain to you my choice
of medium then someone that uses water color or house paint. Artists
chose the
medium that best expresses what they want to say and gelatin silver
expresses
everything I want to say. You would not ask a painter to give up
their pigments
even though there was a time when paint was the only pictorial means
of recording
people, places and events. You would not say to DA Vinci, use a
camera to record
the Mona Lisa or to Michael Angelo photo shop the Sistine Chapel.
Those that
say to me that it is just the same and that I should give up film
for digital
will never understand the deeper meaning of what I am trying to
achieve or why
no matter how good digital becomes it will never be the same as film.




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