Here's a story to gladden the heart of any film shooter!

Keith

Keith

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Every year the institution I shoot gallery openings for (Queensland University Of Technology) has a unique event. It's called Studio GameOn and involves a truckload of cafine buzzed computer engineering/art students, split into teams, attempting to create a working computer game in forty eight hours. It's held in the same QUT gallery I work in occasionally and I've photographed it from go to whoa for two years now. The first year I shot it in black and white film which was bloody hard work with a lot of developing and scanning etc and last year chose to shoot it with digital after discussing it with them and explaining that it would make it a lot less labor intensive for me.

However ... the woman/lecturer who's project this is has asked me to do this years GameOn in black and white film again as she felt that last year the images lacked the unique feel that film gave this high tech event the first time around! The term dichotomy comes to mind here!

I was a little stunned ... but very pleased! :)
 
Cool! Especially when someone whose geekiness resides in a field other than ours recognizes that uniqueness that film provides. No doubt, the quality of your work also swayed her.
 
Glad to know that.......I still have a few clients that insist on film for whom I work extra hard with pleasure.
 
robklurfield said:
Cool! Especially when someone whose geekiness resides in a field other than ours recognizes that uniqueness that film provides.
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I wonder if it is as simple as B&W vs. color instead of digital vs. film. Or was it digital B&W during year two?
 
ColSebastianMoran said:
Keith, can you show us one or two comparisons? Ones that illustrate what the project leader saw?
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That stuff's archived on an external drive ... so maybe later!

The digital year was in colour but according to her that wasn't really the issue ... it was more that it lacked the narrative she was looking for that she liked so much in the previous year.

This tends to make me think that I'm more comfortable with film than I am with digital when it comes to these types of events and that may have been the issue at the heart of it ... she possibly realised this and acted accordingly. She knows me fairly well!

With the gallery openings it's no problem because I'm not telling a story and they actually require the images to be in colour and digital! I'm just documenting a fairly minor event!
 
Interesting! What gear did you shoot with the first year? Could that contribute to your ability to create the narrative?
 
ChrisN said:
Interesting! What gear did you shoot with the first year? Could that contribute to your ability to create the narrative?
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Rangefinders .... Zeiss Ikon and an M2.

That's really done my head in now! Why did you have to ask that? :p
 
All you need to do now is to shoot a couple tintype frames, Keith.
Can't wait to hear what she'd say next year :D :D
 
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