mysteryscribe
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I decided to pull this thread out of the closet, clean the cobwebs off it and have a say one more time. Who knows I might lose my ability to type any day now. So for what it is worth... which ain't much..
I took a visit to the black and white gallery. I was shocked to realize how hopelessly old fashioned I am. I am so lost in the world of photography these days that it is sad. I mean guys were talking about the converstion from digital color to black and white and the lost detail in the shadow area. My first thoguht that was why are you converting digital color to black and white. That's when it struck me that digital (usually I guess if not always) shoots in color.
Okay thats fine, then I realized that in my old brain that is just wrong. Then it came to me how many things are really different in the shooting of the images. How my film images look so different from my SIL digital images. No value judgement intended here just a statement of fact. They look different.
Then I wondered why there wasn't a gallery in this little film section of the forum. Somewhere for us old timers to display the silver image rather than the electron. Now before anyone jumps my butt, I know they let me post my antigue images here, and some of the other alternate processes show up almost daily and thats wonderful.
But why not a gallery for just modern film images. Anything from 35mm film to medium format film or even 4x5 film. As it is now you have to wade through a mass of digital images and probably not find a one. Im not suggesting they start one because I seldom shoot modern film cameras but it seems a shame that those who do are pretty much overlooked for display purposes. They are kind of a footnote.
Yes I know there is no reason not to put shots in the general theme galleries just would be nice to see film images in a place by themselves for me anyway, but that's just me. Could call it yesterday's technology if it would make the digi people feel better lol...
Let the firestorm begin....
I took a visit to the black and white gallery. I was shocked to realize how hopelessly old fashioned I am. I am so lost in the world of photography these days that it is sad. I mean guys were talking about the converstion from digital color to black and white and the lost detail in the shadow area. My first thoguht that was why are you converting digital color to black and white. That's when it struck me that digital (usually I guess if not always) shoots in color.
Okay thats fine, then I realized that in my old brain that is just wrong. Then it came to me how many things are really different in the shooting of the images. How my film images look so different from my SIL digital images. No value judgement intended here just a statement of fact. They look different.
Then I wondered why there wasn't a gallery in this little film section of the forum. Somewhere for us old timers to display the silver image rather than the electron. Now before anyone jumps my butt, I know they let me post my antigue images here, and some of the other alternate processes show up almost daily and thats wonderful.
But why not a gallery for just modern film images. Anything from 35mm film to medium format film or even 4x5 film. As it is now you have to wade through a mass of digital images and probably not find a one. Im not suggesting they start one because I seldom shoot modern film cameras but it seems a shame that those who do are pretty much overlooked for display purposes. They are kind of a footnote.
Yes I know there is no reason not to put shots in the general theme galleries just would be nice to see film images in a place by themselves for me anyway, but that's just me. Could call it yesterday's technology if it would make the digi people feel better lol...
Let the firestorm begin....