We're so lucky today. Do we really appreciate it?

[Yokosuka Mike]

You took three he took a hundred and three.
Does that matter ?
I`m not sure why that`s a comment on why we are so lucky today merely that people go about things differently.
There were plenty of motor drives blazing away back in the day as listening to any old news broadcast event will demonstrate .

It`s not a modern phenomenon.

Again though …. why should that matter ?

Well said.

"Different strokes for different folks"

All the best,
Mike

 

[Chris101]

Digital and film are different media, we don't argue about is painting better than photography any more, and soon won't argue about electronic vs chemical photography. The resulting pictures from the two media are similar, but different.

To illustrate my point, here are two pictures of my favorite subject, one digital and one on film (it's obvious which is which.) I like both pics. Neither could have been made with the other medium. They tell different stories.

 

[Michael Markey]

Well said.

"Different strokes for different folks"

All the best,
Mike

Thanks Mike
I`ve been shooting horses for twenty four years now ,mostly with an M3 double stroke.
I know how they move and I can predict their jumping pattern so get it in a single shot.
You know what though , some days (call it age) I don`t feel on the mark so I resort to a short burst shoot.

Its not fail safe …. if you start it at the wrong point in the movement you`ll just get a series of out of sequence frames .

Its an option though and as the thread suggests I`m grateful for that option , however imperfect , on those days when I don`t feel my best .

It`s not a competition …. at least I don`t see it as one .

 

[Dogman]

https://youtu.be/LQCfdhmgfj8

This talk with Richard Benson is worth listening to. If you're feeling as if you under-appreciate where we are right now, it's hard not to get excited about the tools we have available to us after hearing his excitement and passion for printing.

This video is also 8 years old! Inkjet printing and digital sensors are already leaps better.

Regardless of what you like aesthetically, what's exciting to me is that we have so many incredible choices on how to get from being out in the world and seeing something that you respond to, to turning that into a physical print. You can shoot film and print digitally OR shoot digitally and print traditionally, or do any other combination of things. Crazy times.

Richard Benson was one of the greatest of darkroom printers. He did Paul Strand's later printing as an example. He also printed books and he created methods of printing images that were light years ahead of their time. His book "The Printed Picture" is a classic on the history of the various methods of printing since the beginning of art. If you can find an affordable copy, buy it.

Despite his knowledge, skill and creative methods, he always maintained the most important thing is "How The Picture Looks". He was not didactic in his philosophy whatsoever.

 

[Out to Lunch]

A very interesting youtube clip shared by dogman, especially to those who have an interest in printing. Richard Benson...a little bit about who he was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Benson_(photographer)