...while the fact remains that he's the one with the pictures in the newspaper,...
Much better him than me. The only thing I'd have shown those pictures to is the inside of the woodstove.
I still think I'd prefer genuine shittiness over fake shittiness. I mean, yes, I could use my Droid to make a polaroid, but I'd rather have the real sensation, even if the results were identical. Isn't that what shooting film is all about?
Go on.
I think this just fuels the misonception that film cameras produce "low quality and 'vintage'" looking photos.
I have never encountered this misconception you speak of. I don't think such a thing exists.
The circle closes:
I have no issues with his B&W images for what they are, and I'm sure he had fun making them. I've done similar for music videos - OK using digital techniques but I could do the same with analog stills.
My point is that in fact using film or paper negatives it's actually not that common to get all those artefacts/faults very often, so there's a high degree of dliberate intent in the images. So what I'm really questioning why when there's a direct comparison with Digital images, I'd guess it's purely commercial.
And to answer Klainmeister - I would say the same to the photographer face to face, I've done so before & I'll do it again. It's the context the images are used in rather than the images themselves.
Ian
I think maybe this thread is one of those "get off my lawn" moments.
Me, well I converted to artificial turf a while ago.
I've said it all in my previous posts, scroll up a bit and you'll find a collection of what I think of the pics. His pictures are affectedly bad.
jnanian, trying to talk sense to you is like shouting down an outhouse hole. It just raises a bad smell.
I've made my opinion clear, I'm not likely to change it. How about you leave me alone, and I'll return the courtesy?
There's not a single person, here, who can (or should) claim to be the arbiter of what photography is (or isn't).
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
Charcoal drawing is not photography.
So there
Astroturf?
I have never encountered this misconception you speak of. I don't think such a thing exists.
Ian - So is it our responsibility as analog photographers to never photograph in a manner that could give the perception that analog tools can be misconstrued to give the impression that their attributes are less than superior to other methods of photography? I don't remember seeing such a decree when I bought my analog camera? Is it some kind of fine print in eBay or Craigslist or in th Apug classifieds???
Ian - So is it our responsibility as analog photographers to never photograph in a manner that could give the perception that analog tools can be misconstrued to give the impression that their attributes are less than superior to other methods of photography? I don't remember seeing such a decree when I bought my analog camera? Is it some kind of fine print in eBay or Craigslist or in th Apug classifieds???
I'm not Ian, but I'll answer.
It's our responsibility as (hopefully) acceptable human beings not to misrepresent either ourselves or what we do. If you really want to get to the grit of the matter, this is what I think the photographer did - sold a gimmick, said gimmick the result of misrepresenting analog photography and his skills. I find that reprehensible, to put it mildly.
If any of us did the reverse we'd have to whole Digital brigade down on us like a tone of bricks
That is the truth, or Facebook wouldnt have paid a billion or so dollars for Instagram....also Lomo is doing great too......and the other side of the coin is that if people who are used to goofing around with digital images
see that it is just as easy and maybe even more fun to do something creative with chemical based photography,
maybe there will be more people goofing off in both media ... or doing hybrid work because with chemical photography
you can get different effects that are unobtainable with numbers ..,
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