Do you think you would have made the cut?

10 years 1 week ago #371753 by KCook
Good article that touches on the Zen of shooting with a TLR -

www.photographytalk.com/photography-arti...355-the-power-of-one

Kelly

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10 years 1 week ago - 10 years 1 week ago #371754 by hghlndr6

KCook wrote: Good article that touches on the Zen of shooting with a TLR -

www.photographytalk.com/photography-arti...355-the-power-of-one

Kelly


Yes, I read that.  And I can relate. Despite the fact that my new camera will fire off a gazillion shots at the press of the button, and automatically run through some tricks to come up with the "perfect" shot in case I'm too dumb to figure out how to do it myself, I like to work deliberatively, in the old way. Good article.  Better than most articles I see here, in fact.  

To answer the question posed by the OP: Yes, absolutely; but it is easier today.  Like the other old-timers here, I cut my teeth in film when everything about a camera was manual and processing was dark, cumbersome, wet, odiferous, and, considering some of the chemicals involved, unpleasant and somewhat dangerous.  Unlike some, I didn't hate it. But I sure don't miss it.
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10 years 1 week ago - 10 years 1 week ago #371762 by Don Fischer
Best things about digital for me are #1, cost and #2, see picture instantly. I fooled with darkroom a bit but never had a place to set one up. Didn't do enough to understand very well. Digital processing is way over my head, I get snowballed just thinking about it. If film was as inexpensive as digital, I'd still be shooting film. Still have an RB 67, Yashica 635, Pentax 645 and Nikon F5. I love the feel of them and love the sound.


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10 years 1 week ago #371866 by Stealthy Ninja

Scotty wrote: I would have done just fine. I'd be in the dark room a lot. I'd also be finding a lot of masters do reverse engineer.




I would have died already.
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10 years 1 week ago #371985 by icepics
Good article Kelly, and I agree Bob.

I learned B&W darkroom work several years ago and love it, but I never did work in photography where I had to do it so I can see for some people why they wouldn't exactly miss it (it can be that way for any job I think, you get tired of the tedious part of a job and don't miss that part of it!).

I don't find that darkroom work is necessarily harder once you learn it, it can be more time consuming but like with digital, if you have a well framed, properly exposed, in focus, well composed image, you won't have as much work to do as trying to salvage a photo that didn't turn out so well.

Shooting more doesn't necessarily help you learn or give you better photos I don't think as much as the quality of what you shoot; learning and thinking about what you're doing and developing your skills seems better than just firing off thousands of photos to have to go thru. Seems for those of us who learned on film or shoot film now we've had to learn and understand how to use a camera because there wasn't much of an option to take a mediocre picture and fix it later.

Sharon
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10 years 1 week ago #371989 by Joves

hghlndr6 wrote:

KCook wrote: Good article that touches on the Zen of shooting with a TLR -

www.photographytalk.com/photography-arti...355-the-power-of-one

Kelly


Yes, I read that.  And I can relate. Despite the fact that my new camera will fire off a gazillion shots at the press of the button, and automatically run through some tricks to come up with the "perfect" shot in case I'm too dumb to figure out how to do it myself, I like to work deliberatively, in the old way. Good article.  Better than most articles I see here, in fact.  

Holy thread resurrection Batsman!
I agree that was one of the better articles on here. I hardly get through most of them.


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