B&W film photography only?

[mfogiel]

With the advent of the "new" flickr, I have started reflecting on a need for a B&W only film photography space on the web, that would PRIMARILY concentrate on displaying, sharing and commenting SELECTED images. I have started uploading my photos on flickr in 2007, and at the time, digital was already dominant, but not yet principally an extension of everybody's smartphone. It is clearly heading to cater for the average Joe: the flower embroidery on group headers, the wobbly slideshow and the excessive amount of photographs on each page are telltale signs. The percentage of quality new B&W film entries is quickly converging to zero. I desire to continue doing what I do: practice B&W film photography, possibly trying to improve the quality, not necessarily the quantity.
Hence, I feel a need for a space, where to share images with like minded B&W film enthusiasts. Perhaps a common B&W film only blog would be an ideal solution. The APUG space is filled with colour photographers, and to me, is not sufficiently focused on displaying the pictures - you cannot even see their galleries in full resolution, unless you subscribe...

Is there a way to organize such a thing without any commercial scope for free or for a flickr like fee according to you? The participating photographers would be free to show links to their commercial sites, if they have any and wish to do so, but the main point would be to showcase work in progress, comment on the approaches, ideas, technical processes. How many of you would be interested in such a space?
Thanks
Marek

 

[helen.HH]

I would certainly Join the Lot

 

[David_Manning]

I'd be interested in the b&w aspect of a site like that, though these days most of my shooting is done digitally. So, you'd probably deny my membership! 😉

How about just setting up your own blog and inviting selected shooters to participate? You'll have lots to work with from RFF alone...

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

count me in... 😉

 

[redisburning]

maybe a pinterest group board?

 

[rolfe]

It think this could be done via Tumblr or Google+.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I don't see, personaly, any problem to find B/W, quality, picture on Flickr.
Do it almost every day.
Film street is mostly B/W group, B/W film 6x6 portraits, B/W film.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraits-bw-film/pool/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/square_bw/pool/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/blackandwhitefilm/pool/

Making your own group of Flickr and moderating it, would, probably, lead you to the standard you want to see.

 

[kxl]

How about just setting up your own blog and inviting selected shooters to participate? You'll have lots to work with from RFF alone...

Easy enough to do this, so you can control membership and comments and links, but you'd have to actively manage it.

My own site is set up as a blog, but I have turned off all comments, links, etc... because I don't have the time or desire to actively manage the site on a daily basis. My site presents one photo at a time, but there are many other Wordpress photo themes that could present multiple images on the same web page.

Just a thought...

 

[Koolzakukumba]

You might be interested in the Flickr group I set up. It's called The Online Darkroom and is restricted to film photography. Many of the pics in the pool are scans of darkroom prints rather than scanned negatives. There's a lot of infrared and toned and lith prints. You'd be very welcome if you'd like to join.

I publish a non-commercial blog of the same name which is my effort to do what I can to keep film and darkroom working going for as long as possible.