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I've almost given up on it TBH due to the lack of interest in previous months! Gone are the days of 20 + entries . There is huge talent in this section it would be awesome if more members would take part, I love the images produced by them, so talented!
I'm concerned about film, it appears the resurgence is well & truly over, film has become stupidly expensive and colour chemicals are difficult to get.
The other evening I went on a long exposure workshop and I took my 6 x 6 film camera, I didn't even set up as it wasn't worth it due to the cost/frame and my expected results.
Very sad about it all.
I've only just got back into shooting film, and rarely check this part of the forum.
Also, I don't really have that much of a back catalogue yet in order to submit stuff.
Weirdly, my (current) favourite way to shoot is a blend of both. Manual, film era lenses and digital body.
The process of slowing down to manually focus feels more rewarding (to me), but the bonus is seeing instant results and benefit of being able to shoot multiple frames with no cost.
Very similar to this, I have a really good digital camera but to me it's not photography; I hate lightroom & Photoshop which is where digital is at. Unless you are an expert at those editing suites your pictures will always be average.
I love film and at the moment I feel it is close to be coming so expensive I might as well pack it all in
Personal opinion, but Lightroom is so called because most of the things you can do in it could have been done in a darkroom. Only it doesn't have to be dark.
I totally get that some people love to see the results SOOC. But very few of the basic techniques are things that couldn't be accomplished by film photographers. Pushing film speeds, creating masks, even retouching negatives. In fact i remember one car photographer I worked with back in the day using a plate camera and pulling one side of the plate to elongate the boot and make the car look much more appealing*. He was so good at it, that some people turned up to showrooms and said "that's never the same car!"
*This was about 1996 and the car was a Suzuki Baleno (one of our clients at the time). It was a saloon, but the boot was really stunted. By elongating it, it had proportions more similar to a Rover 620.
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