Despicable practices

[GaryLH]

... I was looking for none

Yep.. Needs additional options. I did not vote because it would have been none of the above.

Gary

 

[kshapero]

I have no problem with either. Photography is about choice and personal expression. I have done both and make no apology for either. Sometimes I have even poured spaghetti sauce over my negs for effect. It's ART, Baby!!!

 

[jsrockit]

Seems easier to concentrate on what you like in photography than what you don't like.

 

[GaryLH]

As for despicable in the World of Photography
I used to think cropping was ( chaulk it up to a perverse Mind 😛)
I mean hell, whats the point of buying and shooting primes
if you can' t Frame your shot 😱
I still don't crop but I now view it as a lesser Sin

I have an old high school friend that still thinks this way. Use all 100% of the frame. I was always of the opinion, get the shot first, don't waste the time moving around for the 100% shot, will miss the moment. If u have a chance to move to get the 100% later that is fine. Do the correct framing later in the darkroom. Plus I really never like carrying a lot of different lenses w/ me before zoom lenses became good enough. I started out as a slr shooter. Did not get my first rf until mid-late 80s.

Gary

 

[unixrevolution]

I am apparently despicable for not having the money to buy a house that has ample space for a darkroom.

I've been called worse for less.

 

[zauhar]

Thanks Keith....!

Guess I opened Pandora's Box.

Only one thing could have been worse I think, like saying Leica makes bad cameras 😀...... (this is irony by the way)!!

Any way to close this poll / thread? Please mods!

You stated upfront that you were being ironic, and your poll question has a subtle and interesting foundation - the comparison between transferring an image to a new medium, vs. transferring the 'look' of the medium to an image.

You have nothing to apologize for. RFF people can be surprisingly thin skinned. I think they have too much invested emotionally in the virtual universe.

For what it's worth, my daughter likes the look of film, but her school only provides digital cameras to the students. So, for one project she painstakingly added film grain to a long series of images. That is one situation where even the purist might admit it is OK to 'fake it'. ;-)

Randy

 

[raid]

This unprofessional poll "proves" that printing from negatives is "pretty much out", so to speak.

 

[Sparrow]

You stated upfront that you were being ironic, and your poll question has a subtle and interesting foundation - the comparison between transferring an image to a new medium, vs. transferring the 'look' of the medium to an image.

You have nothing to apologize for. RFF people can be surprisingly thin skinned. I think they have too much invested emotionally in the virtual universe.

For what it's worth, my daughter likes the look of film, but her school only provides digital cameras to the students. So, for one project she painstakingly added film grain to a long series of images. That is one situation where even the purist might admit it is OK to 'fake it'. ;-)

Randy

For sake of accuracy; that was clarity was added in a later edit, it was not in the original post

PS ... the OP did highlight the edit

 

[daveleo]

Now that I have caught on to it, this is a good example of how hard it is to express ironic, sarcasm, cynicism, wry twists of humor in posting threads and comments.

What's needed on internet forums is that we leave short video clips showing our smirks, winks and rolled eyes !!

<smirk> <wink> <rolled eyes>

 

[Gumby]

... It was obviously intended to be tongue in cheek, ...

Tongues have a more useful purpose than this. 😀

 

[zauhar]

Now that I have caught on to it, this is a good example of how hard it is to express ironic, sarcasm, cynicism, wry twists of humor in posting threads and comments.

What's needed on internet forums is that we leave short video clips showing our smirks, winks and rolled eyes !!

<smirk> <wink> <rolled eyes>

Dave, it would not help. Some people are primed to attack, anything the OP said to indicate 'irony coming' would not even register.

 

[DominikDUK]

Despicable me I sometimes do both and even worse scan a film neg and add artificial grain 😀

 

[coelacanth]

Despicable me I often push b/w films 2 stops to artificially add more grainz!
Then I print in darkroom with artificially arty film strip holder edges!
Then I artificially scan them!!!
Oh despicable me.

 

[zuiko85]

Scanning is just another tool for the film shooter. The reason I shoot film is not that it is better than digital but that it is what is used in film cameras. I like all mechanical film cameras. They have more class than any plasto blob digital camera.

In fact, even in the film era, when Canon started that whole plasto blob look with the T90 and of course when cameras became door stops without their batteries I lost interest in modern cameras entirely.

This is just a personal view not based on any practical considerations. An illogical personal prejudice if you will. So don't jump down my throat telling me my view makes no sense. I already know that

 

[daveleo]

"You're Dethpicable" (Clip with sound !!! )

"You're Dethpicable" (Clip with sound !!! )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xrw0gbnNuU

 

[cosmonaut]

After having a darkroom for a short period scanning really seems cheesy I mean being able to burn and dodge a negative and bringing out details a scan will just miss.
I think everyone using film should have some sort of darkroom time to more understand and appreciate what film is all about.

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

I think everyone using film should have some sort of darkroom time to more understand and appreciate what film is all about.

Quite right. I think we should make it a law that everyone who wants to buy a roll of film has to prove they have a darkroom, before the shop hands over the film.

Yes, yes, just fetching my coat. 😀

 

[pete hogan]

Meter, shoot, process, scan, take what you get. Well...rotate it if you must. Do better the next time.

 

[Roger Hicks]

I was looking for "all of the above"...

Exactly.

Now we know what's been causing the bad weather lately. It's not gay marriage after all: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25802437 .

Cheers,

R.

 

[Godfrey]

I do both. I guess I'm thoroughly despicable.
Oh, Despicable Me!

G