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- May 5, 2009
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I try not to think of myself as a photographer at all, I got into making pictures with a love for drawing that I've tried to keep up ever since I started elementary (I'm 23 now). And when I throw in the towel and play a bit too much with photography to distance myself from it I don't consider myself either an analog or digital enthusiast, but I try and use both whenever it fits, or when I find out it's a bit difficult making stock photography with film if you don't have a scanner and only shoot black and white - though it's usually the price of film that makes me return to digital after a few months of analog.
I recently bought a Mamiya 645 Pro TL and found an old Voigtlländer Perkeo II in a vintage store some few weeks before that and so I started talking around the istockphoto.com forums on who shoots MF around there, I also had an earlier thread talking about how every medium has it's own advantages and disadvantages and how it's not about something being better than the other - just different with different applications.
I'm also quite active with the student organized darkroom in the student society of Oslo, where I've already taught a friend how to use the dark room and am considering holding courses for other students myself to get more people into experimenting with film - though I feel quite different from a lot of the other typical student photographers with their Holgas and other toy cameras, I don't really care too much about that, I only want to make pictures.
When I talk about the advantages of film, it's mostly just because everyone else has abandoned it and I consider myself an opportunist getting to play with really great equipment like my Mamiya and AE1-P without having to worry about it since I got it really cheap - I also consider BW film a better alternative for low light photography, you need a lot of light to get good colors and grainy film looks better than noisy pixels, for colors I recommend digital because a good color image is really difficult to do considering the fact that you need a unified composition and the real world has all sorts of crazy colors everywhere that doesn't always fit into a good picture (traffic signs, construction sites, plastic bags and all sorts of visual garbage), not to mention the difficulty of finding the best saturated light (in a good angle with the sun and the time of day).
Anyone working in a creative field should understand that it's never about what's the best, magazines on photography talking about perfection and "the only camera you'll ever need" never know what they're talking about and sometimes even provoke me with their idiocy. It's about what fits the purpose, like how I prefer drawing with charcoal and pencil because I'm a person who likes to "feel around" with the picture instead of pen and ink which demands you get it right the first time.
It's my love for vintage and vintage stores that gets me try to get others into film, just like how I try to get my friends into buying vinyl records.
I recently bought a Mamiya 645 Pro TL and found an old Voigtlländer Perkeo II in a vintage store some few weeks before that and so I started talking around the istockphoto.com forums on who shoots MF around there, I also had an earlier thread talking about how every medium has it's own advantages and disadvantages and how it's not about something being better than the other - just different with different applications.
I'm also quite active with the student organized darkroom in the student society of Oslo, where I've already taught a friend how to use the dark room and am considering holding courses for other students myself to get more people into experimenting with film - though I feel quite different from a lot of the other typical student photographers with their Holgas and other toy cameras, I don't really care too much about that, I only want to make pictures.
When I talk about the advantages of film, it's mostly just because everyone else has abandoned it and I consider myself an opportunist getting to play with really great equipment like my Mamiya and AE1-P without having to worry about it since I got it really cheap - I also consider BW film a better alternative for low light photography, you need a lot of light to get good colors and grainy film looks better than noisy pixels, for colors I recommend digital because a good color image is really difficult to do considering the fact that you need a unified composition and the real world has all sorts of crazy colors everywhere that doesn't always fit into a good picture (traffic signs, construction sites, plastic bags and all sorts of visual garbage), not to mention the difficulty of finding the best saturated light (in a good angle with the sun and the time of day).
Anyone working in a creative field should understand that it's never about what's the best, magazines on photography talking about perfection and "the only camera you'll ever need" never know what they're talking about and sometimes even provoke me with their idiocy. It's about what fits the purpose, like how I prefer drawing with charcoal and pencil because I'm a person who likes to "feel around" with the picture instead of pen and ink which demands you get it right the first time.
It's my love for vintage and vintage stores that gets me try to get others into film, just like how I try to get my friends into buying vinyl records.
Film rules!
