Inspiring? Hardly. More like interfacing with a microwave oven.
Hardly. More like interfacing with a microwave oven, and about as tactile as my dishwasher.
I shoot lots of digital and find it inspiring. Digital camera gave me a new perspective of vision and allowed to do things I could not acieve with film (I do not mean commercial achievements as I am a pure hobbyist). It is photography after all. Digital actually helped me to come back to photography after a long sleep. Now I have a bag for my Nikon D80 with a compartment for a vintage 6x9 folding camera and I take them both travelling. Sure digital lacks the feeling of craftsmanship you get when you work so meticulously on your prints, but unique fhotographer's vision and immediacy of capture are present. Get seduced!
It's the pictures that are more important than the equipment IMO and it sounds like combining your writing with your photos is a very exciting thing, congrats !!!
Cheers,
Bill
Well thanks. The photography is not very exciting, its just documenting a museum piece that I've written about. The article has been accepted, but they havent even seen the photos. It sort of feels like work to have to take the photos using digital (they said they preferred it), but I'm not complaining. Not because my photos will be published (anyone's photos of the object would suffice, and they said so), but because they are helping my writing get published. Its all very ironic, I havent even tried to publish my photos, I've been shooting film for 40 years and yet here I am, my first d***** images ever will get published. It doesnt seem right. But I can probably use the d****** camera for future science/natural history that doesnt really warrant large format. I dont see using it for anything else, no portraits, no art. no landscapes. I dont see ever printing from files. Phew!
But I was worried for a few minutes when I took it out of the box. I'm already bleary-eyed from reading the directions.
Wayne
Well thanks. The photography is not very exciting, its just documenting a museum piece that I've written about. The article has been accepted, but they havent even seen the photos. It sort of feels like work to have to take the photos using digital (they said they preferred it), but I'm not complaining. Not because my photos will be published (anyone's photos of the object would suffice, and they said so), but because they are helping my writing get published. Its all very ironic, I havent even tried to publish my photos, I've been shooting film for 40 years and yet here I am, my first d***** images ever will get published. It doesnt seem right. But I can probably use the d****** camera for future science/natural history that doesnt really warrant large format. I dont see using it for anything else, no portraits, no art. no landscapes. I dont see ever printing from files. Phew!
But I was worried for a few minutes when I took it out of the box. I'm already bleary-eyed from reading the directions.
Wayne
No! You must stop this non-film nonsense immediately! There is no advantage to digital whatsoever. Next thing you know you will be fixing images in that blasphemous contraption called Photoshop. Who does that Adobe guy think he is anyway, trying to give us the power to alter and fix images without the heavenly scent of fixer?
Beware of these digital cameras too. Some of them have what look like metal bodies on the outside, but I know they are plastic on the inside! Take that old D1X for example. Nikon used some sort of new age trickery to create that cold, metal-like feeling on the outside of the body. I'm going to prove to the world how cheaply made it is by shooting a few more hundred thousand pictures with it until it collapses into the plastic abomination it truely is. I know I'm almost halfway there. I can feel it.
p.s. Feel free to toss that digital contraption you purchased in my garbage can. I'll see to it that it never again tarnishes the hand of another film-using brother or sister.
There appears to be a disturance in the force young skywalker. The dark side within you is.
apart from getting lost in the sheer volume of it.
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