Sounds to me like there's an excellent photographic essay in there someplace ( done with analog equipment of course)
Mark
Also couldn't agree more....when I'm travelling in the morning on the London Underground, opposite me are all these geeky people wearing earphones, transfixed by their i-phone and Kindle screens, like so many robots.....Sometimes I feel like the only humanoid on the train, my ancient Nokia firmly in my pocket.
Sounds to me like there's an excellent photographic essay in there someplace ( done with analog equipment of course)
Mark
Anyone read their "newspapers" on their iphone?
Actually, yes. And it delivers the news faster, and easier, and cheaper, and allows me to respond, and allows me to share it with others instantly almost regardless of where they are in the world.
... and those are some of the reasons digital capture has taken over consumer photography. In these areas film is NOT superior to the consumer and has been replaced by digital.
However, film IS superior IMHO in the area of archival keeping.
Saying "Film really is superior" is just 'one hand clapping'; you must specify the area(s) you are talking about for it to have real meaning.
I think it's assumed here we're all talking about "art" or serious photography - and not crap consumer photography driven by speed of delivery.
... and those are some of the reasons digital capture has taken over consumer photography. In these areas film is NOT superior to the consumer and has been replaced by digital.
However, film IS superior IMHO in the area of archival keeping.
Saying "Film really is superior" is just 'one hand clapping'; you must specify the area(s) you are talking about for it to have real meaning.
I think it's assumed here we're all talking about "art" or serious photography - and not crap consumer photography driven by speed of delivery.
Anyone read their "newspapers" on their iphone? Is there something more inhuman then that? The noise of the newspaper, the feel in hand, the obligatory posture, the smell! The swears while trying to find an article, the sheet that won't stay steady, the folding, the pitching it on the table. Reading the news? Quite a secondary experience next to the senses' overload of what a physical newspaper brings as a whole experience. iPhone? Meh.
I think it's assumed here we're all talking about "art" or serious photography - and not crap consumer photography driven by speed of delivery.
I think it's assumed here we're all talking about "art" or serious photography - and not crap consumer photography driven by speed of delivery.
Actually, yes. And it delivers the news faster, and easier, and cheaper, and allows me to respond, and allows me to share it with others instantly almost regardless of where they are in the world.
The iPhone, iPad (and all their cousins) along with the Internet have and continue to fundamentally change the way "the world" works; including how news, banking services, mail, & happy snaps are going to be delivered, forever. Like steam and electricity also did.
Digital stuff isn't garbage, its just different.
And you can't potty train your dog on an iPhone, either.
I think it's assumed here we're all talking about "art" or serious photography - and not crap consumer photography driven by speed of delivery.
. . . The modern living has made our lives more difficult then what it used to be, despite the promise of a brave new world. You can buy Bananas in Canada while you couldn't 15 years ago? So what. That's not my definition of life improvement. You share photos faster? I'm glad for you. As far as I'm concerned, I thoroughly don't enjoy that. Sharing my pics on a social network is the best way to kill my work. So many hours spent shooting, developing, printing, toning, washing. All that hard work to end up on flickr to try and please a bunch of newbies that have absolutely no clue? to "please" is too big a word. You please nobody on social newtorks until you lick their butt as a "follower" and then expect a "return favor" in form of them "liking" your work. LOL!
To me, it's mostly garbage.
Even if digital longevity storage wasn't an issue, I still couldn't overcome the whole digital process: digging into folders, open windows/folders, browsing through the thumbnails, naming/renaming files. WTF???
I'm sorry but they aren't photographs and that isn't photography. It's Fileographs and Fileography. Drives me insane.
Anyone read their "newspapers" on their iphone? Is there something more inhuman then that? The noise of the newspaper, the feel in hand, the obligatory posture, the smell! The swears while trying to find an article, the sheet that won't stay steady, the folding, the pitching it on the table. Reading the news? Quite a secondary experience next to the senses' overload of what a physical newspaper brings as a whole experience. iPhone? Meh.
File-O-Graphy. Garbage-O-graphy. All the same. Has nothing to do with real photography, even if storage wasn't an issue.
The world got over Dylan plugging in an amp, too.
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