Some of my favorites from recent months:
* https://www.instagram.com/p/CZsFxpmvp-J/ or https://www.reddit.com/gallery/snqwjq
* https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca5ESgmu25m/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/tb5qku/bliss_contax...
Some of my favorites from recent months:
* https://www.instagram.com/p/CZsFxpmvp-J/ or https://www.reddit.com/gallery/snqwjq
* https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca5ESgmu25m/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/tb5qku/bliss_contax...
With digital photography I can bracket all I want. A lot of cameras can do that automatically. I don't have to worry about running out of film, nor do I have to worry about all the money I'm spending in procuring, processing, and printing that film. I don't have to change rolls of film either. That keeps me in the moment.
Just like in the old days I go back after the shoot and look at what I got and discard the rubbish. I do prefer dodging and burning by hand in the darkroom, but I've made my peace with Gimp over the years and I've learned how to use it to maximal effect - and I can do way more than was ever possible in the darkrooms of yore. It really is progress.
"Since then, Cartier-Bresson has taken some 15,000 rolls of black-and-white film."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/magic-moments-93...
"He shot thousands upon thousands of rolls of film at 36 exposures a roll, meticulously numbering each roll before sending it off to be developed a process he had no interest in by magazines or photo agencies."
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09cartier.htm...
With digital we can all make thousands of images without some third-party paying for film and processing, or being independently wealthy.
“After I photograph I wait quite a while before I actually look at the stuff; a year, two years – sometimes longer. I need to be distant from the subjective experience so I can see what the photograph itself contains.”
https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3809/henry-wessel...
“In fact, the work I'm looking at now is from 2002 [the interview was taking place in 2007]. But that time is a good lag time, because what happens is that I forget about the subjective experience of taking the picture, which is always pleasurable. When I look at the contact sheets, I want to be free of that. I want to just look at the photograph and see if it's interesting.”