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How to Choose Your First Film Camera Without Overthinking It
If you have spent any time searching for advice on choosing a first film camera, you have probably come away more confused than when you started. One person tells you to get a Canon AE-1. Another says the Pentax K1000 is the only real choice for beginners. Someone else insists
What You Need to Know Before You Shoot Your First Roll of Film
There are a handful of things about shooting film that nobody tells you until after your first roll comes back slightly wrong. Not wrong in a way that ruins anything — film is more forgiving than its reputation suggests — but wrong in ways that would have been easy to
How to Get Better at Photography Without Buying Anything New
I say this to my students all the time, and I am going to say it here because it is one of the most important things I can tell you. The camera is not what is holding you back. Not the camera body. Not the lenses. Not the editing software.
Why Your Best Photos Happen When You Stop Trying So Hard
Ask most photographers to identify their favorite image from the last year and then ask them how it happened. The answer is almost never: I planned it carefully, I set up the perfect conditions, I worked really hard and the effort paid off. It is usually something more like: I
How to Start Shooting Film Photography as a Beginner
Film photography looks intimidating from the outside. There is the camera to figure out, the film to choose, the exposure settings to understand without a screen to check, the development process to navigate, and a dozen other things that feel unfamiliar when you have only ever shot digital. Here is
What Film Teaches You That Digital Can’t
Digital photography is a genuinely excellent tool. I use it. I teach it. I am not here to argue against it. But I have been doing this for over twenty-five years, and I started in film, and there are things that film taught me about photography that I simply did
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