Are you a Formatographer, or a photographer?
Get over the "format" part of your work, then you can get to the 'other' part, which is where the boomboom is.
Are you a Formatographer, or a photographer?
Get over the "format" part of your work, then you can get to the 'other' part, which is where the boomboom is.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
"Digital" doesn't require that you make hundreds of photographs in an outing. That's your choice as to how you use your digital camera. If you don't want to spend hours in front of a computer editing hundreds of images then you need to learn to be selective in what you photograph. There's also nothing that requires you to edit everything you photograph. After a day of photography with a digital camera I might have 30-50 photographs. I go through them quickly and in about five minutes I've cut it down to maybe 10-15 photographs I think are worth working on.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
As someone who once shot a lot of Kodachrome and now shoots some digital, you can treat them the same way. Set your camera for JPG and manual mode, and it is just like shooting slide film, except you do not need to wait for them to get back from Kodak. Check your exposure with the LCD, delete the bad ones as you go, and come home with the equivalent of a box of slides.
When my kids were small, LF got to be too much of a hassle and realized I was not taking any more pictures. Sold my gear and did not get back in for 20 years. Your life situation may change in the future and it may feel right again. Unless you need the money or the space, keep your gear - it is not like it is going to become obsolete.:-) Then the threshold for giving it a try again is low. I probably would have been shooting again sooner had I kept my gear.
Ed Richards
http://www.epr-art.com
LF is not for everyone. There's nothing wrong with using whatever camera best fits your vision, be it 12X20, 8X10, 4X5, MF, or digital SLR.
Brian Vuillemenot
Man am I tired of all the negative kvetching about LF and 8x10 in particular. If you can't handle it why pollute this forum? What is the point of angst..... about digital, about it-is-to-heavy, i don't-have-time, it's-to expensive bla bla bla. If you're not into LF anymore go somewhere else..... and be happy.....
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