The photograph has to start out on film.
So you either have a lab make an optical enlargement from the film - not Walgrens.
Or you scan the film, and have a print made from the resulting digital file - could very well be Walgrens.
The photograph has to start out on film.What do you mean?
Right. That's what I'd do. Scan the film and have them print it digitally with an inkjet printer.The photograph has to start out on film.
So you either have a lab make an optical enlargement from the film - not Walgrens.
Or you scan the film, and have a print made from the resulting digital file - could very well be Walgrens.
As I wrote…So much for the “trio”…
especially sinceDon… I’d say that 12 people is an exceptionally good participation!
Don… I’d say that 12 people is an exceptionally good participation!
20 people are the only people who post in 99% of the threads, that's 1/2 the entire site!
The last two pre-Covid rounds had 20. I expect that is where we would be without a pandemic.Don… I’d say that 12 people is an exceptionally good participation!
I participate in a monthly challenge. Participation seems to vary between 8 and 12. This month I fear that I’m the only participant so far. The difference is that in this challenge a “winner” is selected, who hosts the next months challenge. A booby-prize, really, but it’s fun for the few who choose to participate.
Those people are severely misguided, its as bad as claiming if it's not done on a wet plate it's not photography.The requirement that it is from film is just one of the rules of that exchange. The fact that the prints can be inkjet allows for people with no darkroom access (or maybe no desire to do darkroom work) to participate. A differently specified exchange could easily allow digital photos. But, as is pretty well-established, a number of people here outright reject the claim of anything digital being photography. Whatever you allow and disallow will entice and repulse different people. (Although, I find the majority of that ideological posture is mostly based on "what-I-do" and is likely to change as a matter of convenience.)
Those people are severely misguided, its as bad as claiming if it's not done on a wet plate it's not photography.
Photography has many forms, the only common factor is images are formed by the action of light. This can be without a lens (typically using a pinhole), or even without a camera (sunprints) the medium used to turn a image inside the camera to a reasonably permanent print is irrelevant for whether it's photography or not.
The digital option was clearly not even a distant possibility when Herschel coined the term photography, but it's derivation (drawing with light) is just as valid for all forms currently carried out. The descriptors analogue & digital are well known when a distinction is required. Even though film photography is at heart also a binary transaction where individual molecules are either reacted by light or not
Just a heads up to one of our newer members. None of those arguments will carry any weight with many of the die hard film enthusiasts around here, even though they scan their negatives with a digital scanner and post the resulting images on the internet as a series of ones and zeros after having given them the treatment in Photoshop.Those people are severely misguided, its as bad as claiming if it's not done on a wet plate it's not photography.
Photography has many forms, the only common factor is images are formed by the action of light. This can be without a lens (typically using a pinhole), or even without a camera (sunprints) the medium used to turn a image inside the camera to a reasonably permanent print is irrelevant for whether it's photography or not.
The digital option was clearly not even a distant possibility when Herschel coined the term photography, but it's derivation (drawing with light) is just as valid for all forms currently carried out. The descriptors analogue & digital are well known when a distinction is required. Even though film photography is at heart also a binary transaction where individual molecules are either reacted by light or not
Despite being mainly a digital photographer these days I can certainly see the extra interest from older print processes, to me I find the extra interest tends to come with what are now considered alternate processes - I have a small number of old family photographs that are daguerreotypes, ambrose types, tin types, or glass plates. They have an added fascination over the newer silver halide film shots.Just as I enjoy it when I see someone out in the world using film, I enjoy seeing a print and knowing that it started out with film.
That doesn't mean that I consider digital camera images invalid or less worthy - just not as enjoyable or interesting to me in the context of a print exchange.
The film-centric part of APUG/Photrio is why I am as active as a long standing member here. It isn't the same for other members, and that is absolutely fine, as long as no-one tries to impose (rather than advocate) their preferences.
We do have specific areas of the site that are reserved for those with particular interests. We ask that people keep within those boundaries when posting in those areas, but that is a site organization issue, not a validity vs. invalidity issue.
This thread is about member organized functions. There is ample room to organize more, and to involve other members with different preferences. Thus arose the Alternate Print Exchange and Toy Camera Print Exchange, to pick two examples.
We do have specific areas of the site that are reserved for those with particular interests. We ask that people keep within those boundaries when posting in those areas, but that is a site organization issue, not a validity vs. invalidity issue.
This thread is about member organized functions.
Sorry to have broached digital capture in an earlier question/comment.
Maybe this is appealing only to people who would have wanted pen pals when they were a kid.
As such I am somewhat 'less than willing' to spend the required 'time' (and 'my' material $$) for any any print exchange
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