Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you are on to something. In addition, film, especially medium format film, sometimes yields a tonality which is quite unique to the medium. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 08 Dec 2016, at 01:25, Lluis Ripoll Photography <lluisripollphotography > at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information