My 1st shoot leaving digital at home!

[10speeduk]

Hi all

Just thought I’d mention that yesterday was the first portrait shoot i have done were i did not take my digital camera. Rather than film playing second fiddle i felt confident enough to just shoot film. I think using a medium format film camera is improving my photography. It’s only when i did this shoot that i realised how detached and disempowered i feel when using my digital camera. It’s like a level of intimacy and attention between my subject and myself had been stripped out and i just can’t feel it properly.

Im not saying that film is better, its more that it brings out the best in me.

[markbarendt]

It is fun.

[Ghostman]

And what a wonderful portrait!

[10speeduk]

Thanks guys. If is great fun sometimes it is like it owns me. That sounds mental right?

Anyway I am not 100% happy with that shot (which was the best one) so will try and better it tomorrow.

[10speeduk]

Re-try!


Natalia on Tx400 by The Paul Reid, on Flickr

[benjiboy]

How brave of you.

[daleeman]

Stick with it, you are on a roll (Pun?)

[10speeduk]

Thanks all, just need to keep improving now! I am happy with the last shot, but is is boring and a bit nothing-y. Will see if I can better this tomorrow with my wife....?!

[Sirius Glass]

You are doing quite well. Keep using film and you will find a better use for digital cameras. I am told that they make excellent door stops, book ends and paper weights.

[eddie]

Im not saying that film is better, its more that it brings out the best in me.

Then, for you, film IS better.