[Leica] Seven decades of classic photography from the Observer

Thu Dec 8 22:12:18 PST 2016

I think you are on to something. In addition, film, especially medium format film, sometimes yields a tonality which is quite unique to the medium.

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Nathan

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> On 08 Dec 2016, at 01:25, Lluis Ripoll Photography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Beside the charme of the film nuances, one of the things that in my opinion makes a difference is the concept of “perfection”, generally the digital offers more perfection and more information about the image, film looks like it is hiding a little bit of something. I think that a film picture requires more of our attention looking at it than a digital where everything is so evident. The fact of hide something, invite us to ask more questions, I don’t remember which great photographer has said that a good picture is the one that ask us a question. The lack of the evident perfection give to the film an special “sensual” attraction…. at least is what I think.
> Lluis
> 
> 
> 
>> El 8 des 2016, a les 1:00, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va escriure:
>> 
>> I wonder if the fact that you can't take as many photos with film as you can
>> with digital makes you concentrate more on what you are photographing and how
>> you do it. That in turn may lead to different styles of photography, as
>> different from 35mm film as 35mm is from wetplate.
>> 
>> An example might be that a lot of digital images are much less likely to be
>> posed; more "snaps" (I am not talking about LUGers shots here). I recently went
>> to see the Vivien Maier exhibition "Chroniques Américains" in France. I was very
>> much struck by the picture taken in Florida of a woman in a ball gown walking
>> towards a big fifties car (it's about halfway down this page:
>> http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/vivian-maier/ ). It could only be film: the
>> blurring, the depth of shadow, the opportunism all say "film" to me.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> On 07/12/2016 19:29, Lluis Ripoll Photography wrote:
>>> Peter,
>>> 
>>> I’ve started on digital in 2009. I think it not has influenced on my work, maybe I’ve increased the night work, for me one of the things producing a change on my work has been that the “click” is much more quite on a classical M than on a digital, the recent last M’s M240, 246 … are much more quite than the M9 or the first Monochrom
>>> 
>>> Lluis
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> El 7 des 2016, a les 20:13, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va escriure:
>>>> 
>>>> Both,
>>>> 
>>>> beautiful images.
>>>> 
>>>> Luis, is 2004 when you went digital? Is it just me or is it that digital has
>>>> completely changed styles of photography? I sometimes feel as if film yields a
>>>> different type of image because of the difference in working with it. Does
>>>> anyone agree?
>>>> 
>>>> Peter
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/12/2016 00:38, Lluis Ripoll Photography wrote:
>>>>> Gerry,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you very much for sharing these masterpieces I will be never tired to look at. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I see these I’m more convinced that the perfection of the digital images has spoiled the magic charme of the classical photography and even I regret more and more to have discontinued the use of film, even if in my opinion, it is no more as it was in the past. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Even looking at my own film pictures, lately I’m working a lot with my old pictures, I can see a difference between the pictures I shoot before the year … say 2004 and the later ones…. Did you noticed this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Lluis
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> El 4 des 2016, a les 8:23, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> va escriure:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> A great ‘anthology’ of 70 years of images from some of the best around:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/gallery/2016/dec/03/seven-decades-of-classic-photography-from-the-observer?CMP=share_btn_link 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Enjoy!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Gerry  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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