12/18/2023 0 Comments 35mm film rollInstead, I find it disingenuous that some Leica owners act as if the pleasure they derived from Leica is purely down to the analogue experience, as if one has to have a Leica to access it. I was not suggesting that Leica owners are all alike. Had I been able to afford a Leica and their wonderful lenses, the tonality probably would have been even better. In colour I would choose a film like Portra. I used a slow film like Pan F or Panatomic X with a compensating developer like Beutler, down-rating the film speed and keeping the development short to get a very long scale and beautiful tonality you just cannot match with digital. However I used to enjoy the skill I had learned, particularly with monochrome. In landscapes, my preoccupation, improving or replacing an inadequate sky is so much easier and better. I do prefer the control you have with digital. Eventually I migrated to C41 and prints in colour.ĥ6 years later I gave all that up, as it was hard work and a darkroom space readily available interfered with domestic life. My father was an enthusiast and I learned from him, so started at age nine with a Box Brownie and doing my own developing and printing from day one. The debate film versus digital ignited again! I suggested him, that he shot the next time the legendary japanese samurai into all their shiny armor and traditions, i know, when someone could do that - Shane is the man! I happily got "Visual Symphony" from Barnbaum, after many years of search. Watch his project, to document the native Americans. The pictures he takes, -portraits.breathtaking, the tonality, -rendition preserved for 100's, perhaps 1000's of years.he's already a living legend. He's doing that since 2012, and he's living his dream. You've got 10 mins to develop a glass plate. I definitive adore Shane's work - wetplate collodion photography - which is the quintessence, the purest artform of photography, the supreme discipline for my taste. Like Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Bruce Barnbaum, Edward Steichen, Michael Hofstätter, Shane Balkowitsch (see "Balkowitsch", guys) to name a few. The thing is somehow, the opener picture reminds me a bit about Fan Ho, into a different way.
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