Why shoot analogue colour photos?

[neuromantism]

Really interesting discussion about seriousness in photography.
In my view the answer to >>"If you're serious about photography..."<< is that you must have other people that want your work, that are willing to pay for your work and that you consistently deliver in your photography. So basically, you're a professional photog.
In this case I suspect that most of the people on this discussion board are no longer or never were serious about photography.
I was working for a short time as someone, who's tasks were not only limited to, but largely based on my photography skills and while it was fun, it was not something that I really wanted to do in a long term, despite that I was requested several times if I could continue so.
But I did not want to do photography, that I was relly enjoying otherwise, seriously.
Let people be unserious about their hobbies.
For me, what is important, is that if you want to share and show off with your hobby work, with your craft, is that you come out clean, or at least respond sincirely to questions, as opposed to obscuring or straight out lying about what you've done. I find exeption in a case, if it is something patentable - then, let it stay obscured, if that's your wish.

For me, I love shooting colour film emulsion because I love looking at it, being it in prints (that I have never done myself) or be it digital scans (which show an extreme amount of detail if done properly). I love the organic look of grain, which is different than what most of digital grain simulations are offering. I love the color transitions, which are too hard for me to recreate. I love the ruminary elements in the process, and I love the magic of science that is shown in photographic chemistry. I do also love the magic of science of electronic photosensors, but digital photography doesn't exhaust my curiosity and desire for taking/making pictures.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Really interesting discussion about seriousness in photography.
In my view the answer to >>"If you're serious about photography..."<< is that you must have other people that want your work, that are willing to pay for your work and that you consistently deliver in your photography. So basically, you're a professional photog.
In this case I suspect that most of the people on this discussion board are no longer or never were serious about photography.
I was working for a short time as someone, who's tasks were not only limited to, but largely based on my photography skills and while it was fun, it was not something that I really wanted to do in a long term, despite that I was requested several times if I could continue so.
But I did not want to do photography, that I was relly enjoying otherwise, seriously.
Let people be unserious about their hobbies.
For me, what is important, is that if you want to share and show off with your hobby work, with your craft, is that you come out clean, or at least respond sincirely to questions, as opposed to obscuring or straight out lying about what you've done. I find exeption in a case, if it is something patentable - then, let it stay obscured, if that's your wish.

For me, I love shooting colour film emulsion because I love looking at it, being it in prints (that I have never done myself) or be it digital scans (which show an extreme amount of detail if done properly). I love the organic look of grain, which is different than what most of digital grain simulations are offering. I love the color transitions, which are too hard for me to recreate. I love the ruminary elements in the process, and I love the magic of science that is shown in photographic chemistry. I do also love the magic of science of electronic photosensors, but digital photography doesn't exhaust my curiosity and desire for taking/making pictures.

Welcome to Photrio!

 

[zfshi]

I used to shoot color negative film but I printed them in my darkroom. Now having no darkroom I shoot color slide film and project them. It's fun to shoot film although expensive.

I plan to shoot slide films too. 135, 6x4.5, 6x6, since I have both 135 and 6x6 slide projectors. Now I have a 6x9 camera, I want to use it to shoot slide films too but can’t be projected, so I plan to buy some acrylic frames and archive the slides so I can view them on an LED light display.

 

[ChrisGalway]

Inspired by all the responses to my original post ... thank you! ... I shot 3 rolls of Kodak Gold 200 last week on holiday using my Mamiya 7ii and 80mm lens. One of the attractions of film photography for me (incl colour neg) is that I now have to wait to see if any or all of the shots come out! Maybe the camera leaked light and everything is fogged? Or I might screw up the processing when I get around to it in the next week or so!

I like slow photography.

 

[Pieter12]

Inspired by all the responses to my original post ... thank you! ... I shot 3 rolls of Kodak Gold 200 last week on holiday using my Mamiya 7ii and 80mm lens. One of the attractions of film photography for me (incl colour neg) is that I now have to wait to see if any or all of the shots come out! Maybe the camera leaked light and everything is fogged? Or I might screw up the processing when I get around to it in the next week or so!

I like slow photography.

One can slow digital photography, too. Turn off image playback or cover the camera's monitor with a bit of black card and artist's tape (comes off easily, leaves no residue). Then don't download the files for a week. Simple.

 

[gbroadbridge]

One can slow digital photography, too. Turn off image playback or cover the camera's monitor with a bit of black card and artist's tape (comes off easily, leaves no residue). Then don't download the files for a week. Simple.

For real fun, lock the ISO and turn off the AF too.

 

[BMbikerider]

This post was stimulated by https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...p-better-than-kodak-gold-or-colorplus.215894/ but rather than go off-topic on that thread, I'll make the comment here:

If you are going to digitally post-process colour photos (colour negatives or positives), why bother to shoot analogue rather than digital (RAW)?

I think I can be convinced that shooting analogue B&W and scanning might be worthwhile ... to give a distinctive "look" to the final retro image, but surely there is less of a case for colour?

Of course, one perfectly valid response is: because it's so much more fun shooting film! And I'm sure there are many other good reasons, but I'm curious to know them.

I love shooting film, and all my B&W work uses film which is scanned, but when it comes to colour for prints etc, I now use a digital camera. I should add that my main hobby is stereo transparencies, viewed in an optical viewer, and digital displays come nowhere near the quality of a transparency viewed optically or directly, so of course I use film.

The reply I would give is Why not?

 

[Pieter12]

For real fun, lock the ISO and turn off the AF too.

I mostly shoot digital in manual mode (both focus and exposure), set ISO. Sometimes I will lapse and shoot in aperture-priority. And I never chimp. Playback/review is turned off on when possible.

 

[albireo]

Inspired by all the responses to my original post ... thank you! ... I shot 3 rolls of Kodak Gold 200 last week on holiday using my Mamiya 7ii and 80mm lens. One of the attractions of film photography for me (incl colour neg) is that I now have to wait to see if any or all of the shots come out! Maybe the camera leaked light and everything is fogged? Or I might screw up the processing when I get around to it in the next week or so!

I like slow photography.

The Mamiya 7 camera is wonderful. I handled one once. It's great that you give yours a workout with colour film. It's a pleasure to use it and the lenses are stellar.

It's a solid bit of kit which has exactly what you need to take excellent photos, nothing more, nothing less. Control over focus, aperture, shutter speed and little more.

Much better than trying to do the same by defeating automatisms on an overengineered bit of kit with myriads useless or semi useless buttons getting in the way, usb sockets, huge batteries, dials, displays. Oh and with digital cameras you'll increasingly have to endure composing by peeking into a puny digital display with more flashing info than the cockpit of an F35. So distracting, so useless ime. A solution in search of a problem.

And that is even before you get the to enjoy the beauty of those huge Gold 200 negatives well scanned or well printed.

Enjoy!