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Post by Peltigera on Aug 28, 2009 15:40:52 GMT -5
OK. Thank you, Beth. Here are a few of my recent 'experiments' with old fashioned film - relearning what I used to know! Old tile works at Barton-upon-Humber Working Windmill in Lincolnshire View from Inside a Derelict Croft, Mull
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Post by Georgina on Aug 31, 2009 1:39:32 GMT -5
Those are gorgeous.
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Post by Georgina on Sept 7, 2009 2:54:02 GMT -5
You're using a film camera for these, Peltigera? And, if so, any special reason why?
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Post by Peltigera on Sept 7, 2009 5:25:50 GMT -5
I use a film camera! Not all the time - in fact, not usually. Most of my photography is with my digital Canon.
The thing is, digital is significantly different in the way it captures light. The digital technique is actually more like the human eye in that it sacrifices detail for edge effects. That is necessary with the way the sensor works otherwise you would have all deatil and no form. Even with RAW capture (I'm getting technical, sorry) there is a lot of irreversable computing happening to the image.
Film gives you detail and no edge effects - a great weakness for which photographers used to learn developing techniques (use of intermittant agitation during development, for instance). I am using very slow film which gives low grain in the picture and masses of detail but then scan the negative to create a digital picture. I effectively get they best of both worlds - great detail and the ability to use Photoshop.
There is also another reason - film is very old fashioned and not much used any more. That means I was able to buy a second hand top-of-the-range film camera that I couldn't even have afforded to look at ten years ago. It cost me £20 instead of its £1,000-ish new. I get a big kick out of that!
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Post by Georgina on Sept 11, 2009 9:23:16 GMT -5
That's quite a bit of work, but the effect you achieve is certainly worth it.
I didn't understand the distinction of what you can capture on film as opposed to digital images. Thanks for sharing that with me. I'll watch for it for here on in.
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Post by Pax on Sept 16, 2009 7:19:00 GMT -5
I never really noticed, either. I always thought that film captured things pretty much as is, you know, given that in essence photons just kind of stick where they land, period. Interesting.
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