donderdag, september 20, 2007
Film Still Popular Among the Pros
Photojournalist Chris Usher usually relies on digital technology. When he wants something special, though, he reaches for a film camera.
"I shoot just as much digital as the next guy out of necessity," Usher said. "I use film probably a third of the time, on personal projects 100 percent of the time. There's a richness and a depth of field that becomes more prevalent when you're shooting film as opposed to digital. It has a tangible feel to it."
Even as the digital revolution is transforming photography, more than two-thirds of professional photographers in a survey released Wednesday said they still prefer using film for certain tasks, praising its ability to add an almost organic quality to pictures.
"Film by its very physical nature is layers of grains of different colors," Usher said. "It's hard to describe, but it does actually have a micro three-dimensionality that you can see in that weird way."
By contrast, he said, "digital pictures look very flat, and even the prints. ... Digital looks literally cut-and-pasted. Probably the biggest disadvantage of digital — I think if you ask most photographers, at least the ones that are honest will admit this — is you end up spending more time behind the computer than you do behind the camera. If you're shooting raw, you still have to go in there and adjust the images, tweak 'em, tone 'em and get everything just so. With film, there it is."
Lees meer bij Associated Press en in het persbericht over het onderzoek onder meer dan 9000 professionele fotografen:
According to the U.S. survey results, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of professional photographers prefer the results of film to those of digital for certain applications including:
-film’s superiority in capturing more information on medium and large format films (48 percent);
-creating a traditional photographic look (48 percent);
-capturing shadow and highlighting details (45 percent);
-the wide exposure latitude of film (42 percent); and
-archival storage (38 percent).
“I find film invaluable because the details and look of the photographs are crucial in re-telling the events playing out in front of me,” said Pep Bonet, international award winning photojournalist and a founding member of NOOR, a new photo agency committed to documenting social issues worldwide. “I do very little research or preparation prior to traveling to location. Instead, I arrive, I observe and ultimately, I trust that my camera and my film will capture the story at hand. The stories may be stunning, disturbing or inspiring. But above all, they are real. There’s nothing like film to capture those realities, particularly Tri-X black-and-white film.”
Many of the survey respondents share Bonet’s passion for black-and-white photography and film. Although professional photographers acknowledge that digital cameras offer certain benefits, they said that film better captures certain images, particularly black-and-white photos. The majority (90 percent) of photographers produce black-and-white images, with 47 percent saying black-and-white photography allows them to create a certain look and feel and differentiate themselves. More than half of them (57 percent) prefer using film to achieve this desired effect.
"I shoot just as much digital as the next guy out of necessity," Usher said. "I use film probably a third of the time, on personal projects 100 percent of the time. There's a richness and a depth of field that becomes more prevalent when you're shooting film as opposed to digital. It has a tangible feel to it."
Even as the digital revolution is transforming photography, more than two-thirds of professional photographers in a survey released Wednesday said they still prefer using film for certain tasks, praising its ability to add an almost organic quality to pictures.
"Film by its very physical nature is layers of grains of different colors," Usher said. "It's hard to describe, but it does actually have a micro three-dimensionality that you can see in that weird way."
By contrast, he said, "digital pictures look very flat, and even the prints. ... Digital looks literally cut-and-pasted. Probably the biggest disadvantage of digital — I think if you ask most photographers, at least the ones that are honest will admit this — is you end up spending more time behind the computer than you do behind the camera. If you're shooting raw, you still have to go in there and adjust the images, tweak 'em, tone 'em and get everything just so. With film, there it is."
Lees meer bij Associated Press en in het persbericht over het onderzoek onder meer dan 9000 professionele fotografen:
According to the U.S. survey results, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of professional photographers prefer the results of film to those of digital for certain applications including:
-film’s superiority in capturing more information on medium and large format films (48 percent);
-creating a traditional photographic look (48 percent);
-capturing shadow and highlighting details (45 percent);
-the wide exposure latitude of film (42 percent); and
-archival storage (38 percent).
“I find film invaluable because the details and look of the photographs are crucial in re-telling the events playing out in front of me,” said Pep Bonet, international award winning photojournalist and a founding member of NOOR, a new photo agency committed to documenting social issues worldwide. “I do very little research or preparation prior to traveling to location. Instead, I arrive, I observe and ultimately, I trust that my camera and my film will capture the story at hand. The stories may be stunning, disturbing or inspiring. But above all, they are real. There’s nothing like film to capture those realities, particularly Tri-X black-and-white film.”
Many of the survey respondents share Bonet’s passion for black-and-white photography and film. Although professional photographers acknowledge that digital cameras offer certain benefits, they said that film better captures certain images, particularly black-and-white photos. The majority (90 percent) of photographers produce black-and-white images, with 47 percent saying black-and-white photography allows them to create a certain look and feel and differentiate themselves. More than half of them (57 percent) prefer using film to achieve this desired effect.
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