Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I'm not about to start shooting film again. Life is too short to deal with chemicals and limits of 36 per roll and one ISO and carrying enough film for a two-week trip. But I still love the way film looks so I'll continue to make my digital files look as much like film as I can. Digital is just too clean and sterile for me. I like grain and texture. As long as I can have the best of both worlds, I see no reason to limit myself to only digital looking photos! Tina On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 robert.rose at mac.com wrote: > > >Maybe I will be dismissed or ignored like Cassandra, but I want to speak > out against making files from a digital camera "look like" something else, > e.g., some film-developer combination. > > >I am not old enough to know this first hand, but when photography first > hit there were folks who tried to make photos look like paintings. I > believe that William Mortensen was in that group, and this earned >him the > enmity of Ansel Adams and others in the f/64 Group. > > >Similarly, I feel that the desire to make a digital file look like film > is misguided. Just use a film camera if that is what you want (and I > hasten to add that you all do a bang up job producing film images). > > >We should be exploring what can be done with digital that would be > impossible or difficult with film, and exploit those differences to create > something new. We should embrace digital display too, and stop >worrying > about making prints on our Epson printers that "look like" they are silver > prints. > > >Off my soap box now. Your comments, disagreements, agreements, etc., are > really appreciated. > > >Bob Rose > > ================================================================================================================================================================= > That is my sentiment also. I think to get the film look, make the effort > and shoot film. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Relations > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com