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Richard Jernigan
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RE: My photo of the week 9 (in reply to Ron.M)
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Interesting comparisons, Simon. @Ron: I shot, developed and printed film for more than 40 years, both on land and underwater-~1500 dives. I enjoyed shooting Balinese dance performances and hunting fish. Eventually I learned to press the shutter release at the right time once in a while. When semi-pro DSLRs exceeded 10 Mpix, I dipped my toe in digital. I don't think I would have got this image without digital-- Nikon D300, 17-55mm f/2.8--12 Mpix. It's a tower about 50 ft high, with a huge fireworks whirligig at the top. The exposure meter was utterly flummoxed. I switched to manual mode and checked the playback after each change in shutter speed and aperture. This is the third attempt. It took maybe 15 seconds. On film I would have bracketed the exposure and hoped for the best. With digital playback I converged to the right exposure while the fireworks were at their peak, and knew I had the shot. Film still does things digital cannot. But for me, the converse is true as well. I have blown up 35mm Kodachromes to 24"x36". I have done the same with resampled 12 Mpix digital images. Both looked great. Film responds tonally in a different way than digital. There's the romance, for me at least.
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Date Feb. 17 2011 2:30:46
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Ruphus
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RE: My photo of the week 9 (in reply to Ron.M)
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ORIGINAL: Ron.M On Radio 4, there was a professional news photographer saying that these days you can shoot a zillion shots on a digital camera and review them later, relaxed with a drink in hand on the computer, but that it takes away from being totally involved and immersed in the moment and the "meaning" of the photograph as it affected you at the time. Plus the fact you were limited to 36 exposures per roll, so you had to be discerning before you pushed the shutter release button. cheers, Ron I appreciate the battle of the past, and what it took to keep balance with good results under budgets. Yet, the `good ol´stress with celluloid and its expenses for the darkroom ( let aside ordered development in the times before automated exposure!) are no reason for me to be nostalgic about it. Instead I embrace the comfort and relief that the new tech allows, so that one mustn´t bother about limited number of shots and can just shoot away. Also love to just take that storage card and stick into a computer, right after the session. To me personally the challenge with trying to keep postwork on exposure near zero is enough of sportsmanship. - What B&W photography is concerned, I am with a popular photograper who once said something to the extend, that there was some kind of pseudo-artistic mannerism going on that made people giving up merrits of colour. I feel the need for capturing in B&W only very rarely. Ruphus
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