This is just depressing to me having literally grown up in a darkroom.
"For years my process looked like this: load film and take photos, ....[blah blah blah]... the exported image."
"At first this was an exciting process for me. Then as the number of rolls increased, so did my effort to do this for 36 frames per roll."
I shot black and white film sine the 70's, medium and 35mm. I would develop the negatives and prints myself. The complete process was a joy. I never printed every shot, but I put care into each shot I processed. I was careful when I took a photograph, because the cost limited how much I shot. This made me a better photographer.
I later started scanning my film with a Nikon CoolScan (this was in the late 90's) and i already started hating it. Then I started full digital and now I do not shoot anymore (I was semi professional with Art work published in national magazines).
"My part is now the part I can thoroughly enjoy, which is looking at the results I’ve snapped and finding inspiration to snap more."
Why do any of this just shoot digital if you do not care about the process?
Thing is scanning provided a way to share with community for a brief decade when photo clubs and magazines have died out but photo sites and forums still lived.
Nowadays photography feels utterly pointless (doubly so with advent of genAI). And oddly (non-phone) digital camera photography feels more antiquated than shooting film.
Noaidi · · focus · HN ↗
"For years my process looked like this: load film and take photos, ....[blah blah blah]... the exported image."
"At first this was an exciting process for me. Then as the number of rolls increased, so did my effort to do this for 36 frames per roll."
I shot black and white film sine the 70's, medium and 35mm. I would develop the negatives and prints myself. The complete process was a joy. I never printed every shot, but I put care into each shot I processed. I was careful when I took a photograph, because the cost limited how much I shot. This made me a better photographer.
I later started scanning my film with a Nikon CoolScan (this was in the late 90's) and i already started hating it. Then I started full digital and now I do not shoot anymore (I was semi professional with Art work published in national magazines).
"My part is now the part I can thoroughly enjoy, which is looking at the results I’ve snapped and finding inspiration to snap more."
Why do any of this just shoot digital if you do not care about the process?
varjag · · focus · HN ↗
Nowadays photography feels utterly pointless (doubly so with advent of genAI). And oddly (non-phone) digital camera photography feels more antiquated than shooting film.