I shoot lots of digital and find it inspiring. Digital camera gave me a new perspective of vision and allowed to do things I could not acieve with film (I do not mean commercial achievements as I am a pure hobbyist). It is photography after all. Digital actually helped me to come back to photography after a long sleep. Now I have a bag for my Nikon D80 with a compartment for a vintage 6x9 folding camera and I take them both travelling. Sure digital lacks the feeling of craftsmanship you get when you work so meticulously on your prints, but unique fhotographer's vision and immediacy of capture are present. Get seduced!
Oops, I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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First of all, you should feel good about the prospect of publishing your stuff. Writing and photography often go hand-in-hand. Congratulations! As far as using a digital camera, if you enjoy processing digital images, the seduction will certainly be there. On the other hand, if you're going to rely on out-of-camera images, then you're likely to be disappointed and frustrated with the output, especially in black and white.
It's the pictures that are more important than the equipment IMO and it sounds like combining your writing with your photos is a very exciting thing, congrats !!!
It's the pictures that are more important than the equipment IMO and it sounds like combining your writing with your photos is a very exciting thing, congrats !!!
Cheers,
Bill
Yep, all kidding aside, congrats!!
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Uhhhhhhhhh, seduction of digital, I started to remember scenes of sex I read in science fiction stories... nightmares...
Today I wondered through my town and think in a past year I saw many people with digital SLRs. Then I remembered in times before digital, majority of peole I saw with P/S cameras. SO wheN i saw someone with SLR I allways thought it must be some serious photographer, because all others (tourists, people who have 2 birthdays and 2 newsyears on same froll of film) used P/S. So, I thought "Ok, if people (let say not serious photographers) stared to use digital SLRs more than they used film SLRs in past, maybe the will become serious photograhers, so there will be atleast one good from that evil of digital". Then I remembered few days ago one "photographer" who used DSLR and flash on camera for particular photo, and his words "Oh, this photograph is too bright, I will have to shoot at speed 1/500 instead of 1/125"...
There is no hope...
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Well thanks. The photography is not very exciting, its just documenting a museum piece that I've written about. The article has been accepted, but they havent even seen the photos. It sort of feels like work to have to take the photos using digital (they said they preferred it), but I'm not complaining. Not because my photos will be published (anyone's photos of the object would suffice, and they said so), but because they are helping my writing get published. Its all very ironic, I havent even tried to publish my photos, I've been shooting film for 40 years and yet here I am, my first d***** images ever will get published. It doesnt seem right. But I can probably use the d****** camera for future science/natural history that doesnt really warrant large format. I dont see using it for anything else, no portraits, no art. no landscapes. I dont see ever printing from files. Phew!
But I was worried for a few minutes when I took it out of the box. I'm already bleary-eyed from reading the directions.
Well thanks. The photography is not very exciting, its just documenting a museum piece that I've written about. The article has been accepted, but they havent even seen the photos. It sort of feels like work to have to take the photos using digital (they said they preferred it), but I'm not complaining. Not because my photos will be published (anyone's photos of the object would suffice, and they said so), but because they are helping my writing get published. Its all very ironic, I havent even tried to publish my photos, I've been shooting film for 40 years and yet here I am, my first d***** images ever will get published. It doesnt seem right. But I can probably use the d****** camera for future science/natural history that doesnt really warrant large format. I dont see using it for anything else, no portraits, no art. no landscapes. I dont see ever printing from files. Phew!
But I was worried for a few minutes when I took it out of the box. I'm already bleary-eyed from reading the directions.
Wayne
Maybe trade it in for a scanner... best o both worlds.
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--J Brunner, The Prints of Darkness
Well thanks. The photography is not very exciting, its just documenting a museum piece that I've written about. The article has been accepted, but they havent even seen the photos. It sort of feels like work to have to take the photos using digital (they said they preferred it), but I'm not complaining. Not because my photos will be published (anyone's photos of the object would suffice, and they said so), but because they are helping my writing get published. Its all very ironic, I havent even tried to publish my photos, I've been shooting film for 40 years and yet here I am, my first d***** images ever will get published. It doesnt seem right. But I can probably use the d****** camera for future science/natural history that doesnt really warrant large format. I dont see using it for anything else, no portraits, no art. no landscapes. I dont see ever printing from files. Phew!
But I was worried for a few minutes when I took it out of the box. I'm already bleary-eyed from reading the directions.
Wayne
No! You must stop this non-film nonsense immediately! There is no advantage to digital whatsoever. Next thing you know you will be fixing images in that blasphemous contraption called Photoshop. Who does that Adobe guy think he is anyway, trying to give us the power to alter and fix images without the heavenly scent of fixer?
Beware of these digital cameras too. Some of them have what look like metal bodies on the outside, but I know they are plastic on the inside! Take that old D1X for example. Nikon used some sort of new age trickery to create that cold, metal-like feeling on the outside of the body. I'm going to prove to the world how cheaply made it is by shooting a few more hundred thousand pictures with it until it collapses into the plastic abomination it truely is. I know I'm almost halfway there. I can feel it.
p.s. Feel free to toss that digital contraption you purchased in my garbage can. I'll see to it that it never again tarnishes the hand of another film-using brother or sister.
No! You must stop this non-film nonsense immediately! There is no advantage to digital whatsoever. Next thing you know you will be fixing images in that blasphemous contraption called Photoshop. Who does that Adobe guy think he is anyway, trying to give us the power to alter and fix images without the heavenly scent of fixer?
Beware of these digital cameras too. Some of them have what look like metal bodies on the outside, but I know they are plastic on the inside! Take that old D1X for example. Nikon used some sort of new age trickery to create that cold, metal-like feeling on the outside of the body. I'm going to prove to the world how cheaply made it is by shooting a few more hundred thousand pictures with it until it collapses into the plastic abomination it truely is. I know I'm almost halfway there. I can feel it.
p.s. Feel free to toss that digital contraption you purchased in my garbage can. I'll see to it that it never again tarnishes the hand of another film-using brother or sister.
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