Tag: lessons from shooting film

  • What Shooting Film for 25 Years Taught Me About Photography

    What Shooting Film for 25 Years Taught Me About Photography

    I did not start with digital. Nobody did, when I started. I started with film — with the smell of a darkroom, with the discipline of thirty-six frames and no do-overs, with the particular quality of attention that comes from knowing every frame costs something. Film was all there was. Then digital arrived and changed… Read more

  • What Film Teaches You That Digital Can’t

    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 not learn from digital. Not… Read more