Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, Beside the charme of the film nuances, one of the things that in my opinion makes a difference is the concept of ?perfection?, generally the digital offers more perfection and more information about the image, film looks like it is hiding a little bit of something. I think that a film picture requires more of our attention looking at it than a digital where everything is so evident. The fact of hide something, invite us to ask more questions, I don?t remember which great photographer has said that a good picture is the one that ask us a question. The lack of the evident perfection give to the film an special ?sensual? attraction?. at least is what I think. Lluis > El 8 des 2016, a les 1:00, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va > escriure: > > I wonder if the fact that you can't take as many photos with film as you > can > with digital makes you concentrate more on what you are photographing and > how > you do it. That in turn may lead to different styles of photography, as > different from 35mm film as 35mm is from wetplate. > > An example might be that a lot of digital images are much less likely to be > posed; more "snaps" (I am not talking about LUGers shots here). I recently > went > to see the Vivien Maier exhibition "Chroniques Am?ricains" in France. I > was very > much struck by the picture taken in Florida of a woman in a ball gown > walking > towards a big fifties car (it's about halfway down this page: > http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/vivian-maier/ ). It could only be film: the > blurring, the depth of shadow, the opportunism all say "film" to me. > > Peter > > On 07/12/2016 19:29, Lluis Ripoll Photography wrote: >> Peter, >> >> I?ve started on digital in 2009. I think it not has influenced on my >> work, maybe I?ve increased the night work, for me one of the things >> producing a change on my work has been that the ?click? is much more >> quite on a classical M than on a digital, the recent last M?s M240, 246 ? >> are much more quite than the M9 or the first Monochrom >> >> Lluis >> >> >> >> >>> El 7 des 2016, a les 20:13, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va >>> escriure: >>> >>> Both, >>> >>> beautiful images. >>> >>> Luis, is 2004 when you went digital? Is it just me or is it that digital >>> has >>> completely changed styles of photography? I sometimes feel as if film >>> yields a >>> different type of image because of the difference in working with it. >>> Does >>> anyone agree? >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> On 06/12/2016 00:38, Lluis Ripoll Photography wrote: >>>> Gerry, >>>> >>>> Thank you very much for sharing these masterpieces I will be never >>>> tired to look at. >>>> >>>> When I see these I?m more convinced that the perfection of the digital >>>> images has spoiled the magic charme of the classical photography and >>>> even I regret more and more to have discontinued the use of film, even >>>> if in my opinion, it is no more as it was in the past. >>>> >>>> Even looking at my own film pictures, lately I?m working a lot with my >>>> old pictures, I can see a difference between the pictures I shoot >>>> before the year ? say 2004 and the later ones?. Did you noticed this? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Lluis >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> El 4 des 2016, a les 8:23, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> >>>>> va escriure: >>>>> >>>>> A great ?anthology? of 70 years of images from some of the best around: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/gallery/2016/dec/03/seven-decades-of-classic-photography-from-the-observer?CMP=share_btn_link >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Enjoy! >>>>> >>>>> Gerry >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> =========================================================== >>> Dr Peter Dzwig >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information