peterm1
Veteran
Maybe not what you had in mind............. 
leicapixie
Well-known
Relax! I'm sure still shooting but digital..
Your photos "all the same" is not true!
You have a style, as we all get with practice..
No matter where I go, my pix are My Pix.
Film is beautiful but so are simple phone pictures!
I love the idea of paper negative!
Every day is new but the sun comes up everyday too..
but sometimes it's obscured.
I actually like your series..
Your photos "all the same" is not true!
You have a style, as we all get with practice..
No matter where I go, my pix are My Pix.
Film is beautiful but so are simple phone pictures!
I love the idea of paper negative!
Every day is new but the sun comes up everyday too..
but sometimes it's obscured.
I actually like your series..
jmarcus
Well-known
Personally I'm not working hard enough at my photography, so one thing I think about is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ƒ/8_and_be_there
I read some other article a long time ago and I always think about F8 and Shoot.
I find if I'm not shooting all the time I have to physically work at shooting, I have t remind myself to get up and move around, keep the viewfinder to my eye and push the button. So get out there!
As for film, I decided I wasn't shooting enough to justify a M10, I still have my M9. When it was in the shop for the sensor replacement, shooting film on the M6 just had more beautiful results.
I read some other article a long time ago and I always think about F8 and Shoot.
I find if I'm not shooting all the time I have to physically work at shooting, I have t remind myself to get up and move around, keep the viewfinder to my eye and push the button. So get out there!
As for film, I decided I wasn't shooting enough to justify a M10, I still have my M9. When it was in the shop for the sensor replacement, shooting film on the M6 just had more beautiful results.
Mute-on
Well-known
I really like your black and white images of family and friends, particularly outdoors in better light.
You could do a lot worse than grab your M3 and a 50 Summicron/lux and throwing some Tri-X in it, meter at 800-1600 and go for it!
I would say you are capable of some great photos, and some haphazard ones. You need to refine your approach a little to concentrate on what makes your photos great (lighting, orientation, composition).
It can be your project for this Rosh Hashanah!
All the best.
J
You could do a lot worse than grab your M3 and a 50 Summicron/lux and throwing some Tri-X in it, meter at 800-1600 and go for it!
I would say you are capable of some great photos, and some haphazard ones. You need to refine your approach a little to concentrate on what makes your photos great (lighting, orientation, composition).
It can be your project for this Rosh Hashanah!
All the best.
J
froyd
Veteran
This works for me:
1- Look at the unprocessed output from my last outing with a digital camera
2- despair at the thought of dealing with 300+ images from a simple weekend trip
3- grab a roll of film from the fridge and stare longingly at the marking that reads 24exp film and wonder where it all went wrong
4- If that fails, reach further back in the fridge and grab a roll of 120
Just kidding, of course, but I do like how shooting film "concentrates" my output. Of course for some people the thought process above goes something like: look at the stash of undeveloped rolls, despair, look longingly at digital cam
1- Look at the unprocessed output from my last outing with a digital camera
2- despair at the thought of dealing with 300+ images from a simple weekend trip
3- grab a roll of film from the fridge and stare longingly at the marking that reads 24exp film and wonder where it all went wrong
4- If that fails, reach further back in the fridge and grab a roll of 120
Just kidding, of course, but I do like how shooting film "concentrates" my output. Of course for some people the thought process above goes something like: look at the stash of undeveloped rolls, despair, look longingly at digital cam
Highway 61
Revisited
Like Mute-on said.
You have a free access to a very picturesque spiritual community.
Documenting it with a film camera would for sure be great and you would leave an interesting archive behind.
But, you need to determine your own angle of view first. Looks like you see things better in black and white, obviously. You should be good enough at close-up square black and white portraits.
You also have to dump many of your haphazard photos. Keeping looking at one's own bad photos is... bad. Sort your production out, treat yourself with some honest criticism.
Getting rid of online shopping and "returnitis" will help you too.
You have a free access to a very picturesque spiritual community.
Documenting it with a film camera would for sure be great and you would leave an interesting archive behind.
But, you need to determine your own angle of view first. Looks like you see things better in black and white, obviously. You should be good enough at close-up square black and white portraits.
You also have to dump many of your haphazard photos. Keeping looking at one's own bad photos is... bad. Sort your production out, treat yourself with some honest criticism.
Getting rid of online shopping and "returnitis" will help you too.
retinax
Well-known
Look at prints. Best hold them in your hands. Either your own work, or a friend's, or at least a gallery or a book.
GarageBoy
Well-known
There have been times when I've done that - cut and sleeved my negatives - looked at them and thought about throwing the whole thing awayThis works for me:
1- Look at the unprocessed output from my last outing with a digital camera
2- despair at the thought of dealing with 300+ images from a simple weekend trip
3- grab a roll of film from the fridge and stare longingly at the marking that reads 24exp film and wonder where it all went wrong
4- If that fails, reach further back in the fridge and grab a roll of 120
Just kidding, of course, but I do like how shooting film "concentrates" my output. Of course for some people the thought process above goes something like: look at the stash of undeveloped rolls, despair, look longingly at digital cam
Emile de Leon
Well-known
I just got back into film after a 10+ year hiatus..
I figure the only reason for film these days is you actually like the process..and intend to print..
For me that means MF up to LF..
Not 35mm..
Its nice to see the film hanging to dry..
Not so nice to mess up exposures etc..
And..pretty expensive..
I figure the only reason for film these days is you actually like the process..and intend to print..
For me that means MF up to LF..
Not 35mm..
Its nice to see the film hanging to dry..
Not so nice to mess up exposures etc..
And..pretty expensive..
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Here's an exercise to stress your creativity: Make exactly, just, one photograph every day for a couple of months. Try to shoot something different in theme every time you make a photo. ONLY look at the photos after a week has gone by.
Makes no difference whether you use film or digital capture. Solves the "too many photos to process" nonsense, and makes you work at pre-visualization.
Personally, I often go out with a camera and struggle to make even one photograph that isn't a repeat of photos I've made before. And I am generally closing down making all those repeat exposures ... I don't want to be bothered with them. Many times I pick up the Polaroid SX-70 instead of anything else now ... an 8 frame film pack can last me a week or more!
I see no point to "getting you back into film" ... I'd like to see you get back into and be enthused about doing Photography. It's a much more valuable thing to be motivated by.
G
Makes no difference whether you use film or digital capture. Solves the "too many photos to process" nonsense, and makes you work at pre-visualization.
Personally, I often go out with a camera and struggle to make even one photograph that isn't a repeat of photos I've made before. And I am generally closing down making all those repeat exposures ... I don't want to be bothered with them. Many times I pick up the Polaroid SX-70 instead of anything else now ... an 8 frame film pack can last me a week or more!
I see no point to "getting you back into film" ... I'd like to see you get back into and be enthused about doing Photography. It's a much more valuable thing to be motivated by.
G
B-9
Devin Bro
Motivation:
Film will never be this affordable again.
Even if it is inflated.. now or ...prohibitively expensive later!
That was enough for me to go 100% back to film. Ill enjoy it while I can afford it.
Those digicams only get cheaper by the month.
Film will never be this affordable again.
Even if it is inflated.. now or ...prohibitively expensive later!
That was enough for me to go 100% back to film. Ill enjoy it while I can afford it.
Those digicams only get cheaper by the month.
Erik van Straten
Veteran
Film is fantastic, above all because you can make such nice prints from the negatives: gelatine silver ... The prints will outlive you many times.
Erik.
Erik.
Ambro51
Collector/Photographer
I’ve read all the replies and I’ll bet the Stereo Realist would be the most “game changing” camera/method yet suggested to get one back into film. Seriously, how often do people look at one of your photos, go !!!!WOW !!!!! and stare at it in amazement??? They will when they look through the viewer!!!
Godfrey
somewhat colored
I hear that all the time.
According to the Wilhelm-Research reports on archival permanence, the post-2006-2007 generation of pigment inkjet prints on archival papers outlast gelatin-silver prints in stress testing by a factor of two to three.
Beyond that, I don't care a bit whether my photographs outlast me. That's for anyone left behind who values them to worry about. I do my best to make sure they are printed on archival papers and with inks that will stand the test of time, and that's all anyone can do.
G
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
Lots of very good suggestions here, such as extended use of one camera, one lens, one film, or make exactly one photo per day.
One thing I've noticed among my "uninteresting" photos or very old photos, is that after a great amount of time has passed (many years) , I discover a multitude of fascinating things in the old photo. Things that were so common or so frequently seen that I ignored them at the time of the photo. This is especially true of places I had lived in many decades ago.
So what I did a few years ago was embark on a theme of "everyday scenes" and "too common". I would deliberately photograph things that I saw every day that I'd given no attention to. I did this in the belief that many years from now I will be grateful for having captured these things.
As for archival qualities, I have family photos from Hungary that were made in the 1890's - over 120 years ago - and they are in perfect condition.
One thing I've noticed among my "uninteresting" photos or very old photos, is that after a great amount of time has passed (many years) , I discover a multitude of fascinating things in the old photo. Things that were so common or so frequently seen that I ignored them at the time of the photo. This is especially true of places I had lived in many decades ago.
So what I did a few years ago was embark on a theme of "everyday scenes" and "too common". I would deliberately photograph things that I saw every day that I'd given no attention to. I did this in the belief that many years from now I will be grateful for having captured these things.
As for archival qualities, I have family photos from Hungary that were made in the 1890's - over 120 years ago - and they are in perfect condition.
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Godfrey
somewhat colored
My mother and father recorded their entire honeymoon trip with a Stereo Realist. They were fun to look through*and beautiful quality when I was a child, but only one person could see them at a time.
Over the years all of them became so degraded in quality that the magic was long gone. The problem was outgassing of the plastic holders they were mounted in, which ate away the dyes in the emulsions over time. Not a single one of them has survived the past 70 years.
Their very few B&W negatives have had a substantially better survival rate—not 100%, for sure, but a few good ones are still around.
Prints, particularly B&W prints, do much better from that era. Digital images recorded into a book, published, and digitally submitted to the Library of Congress will likely outlast anything else.
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To the OP: Pick up a Polaroid SX-70, buy a few packs of film, and make one good photo per day. It will completely change how you do photography. Bonus point: People, children in particular, LOVE having their photo made with a Polaroid SX-70.
G
B-9
Devin Bro
1 cam 1 lens 1 film. Not very easy for anyone who has a history with cameras.
Better to just feed yourself with restraint. Treat it like your giving up tobacco.
Strangely equivalent in my experience. Restraint builds discipline.. eventually.. I hope!
Haha. Just be happy. That is the best motivation you can find.
Better to just feed yourself with restraint. Treat it like your giving up tobacco.
Strangely equivalent in my experience. Restraint builds discipline.. eventually.. I hope!
Haha. Just be happy. That is the best motivation you can find.
helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
Your thread made me giggle
Getting awfully ‘kinky’ Akiva , lol
Getting awfully ‘kinky’ Akiva , lol