On: Thu, 1 Apr 04 Bob Marchant wrote:- >> With film you have the right to fail, with digital failure is not an option. > > Now you're beginning to scare me :-) !!
Gosh, did I write that? <G> Yes, I did.........after the endorphin rush of digicam purchase fulfillment wore off, it was - huh, is that it? Really difficult to shake off having no film and endless exposures. Eventually realising that many years of shooting blind with film gave me an extreme advantage and I took to digital like the duck proverbial. Best mind candy ever. Took the manual everywhere for the first month. My first impulse was to go and shoot thousands of pix and get through two sets of batteries a day.......as in light touch paper and stand back. So glad of my acquired discipline with film, the overlap of technology being entirely complementary, as one mirrors the other. I believe it is very important for digital photographers to fully understand each and every aspect and function of how a digi-cam works and operates inside out - night and day. It is too easy to make a competent picture with a digicam, and photographers with clients who settle for 'good enough' need to push very hard to transcend their own limitations. Ironic that it serves to drive prices and perceptions down of what constitutes good photography. There was a time when using film meant you had to take risks and clients knew this, so really good photographers could charge really good prices. Now, there are no risks, digital capture locks everything down as digitised photons immortalised forever. Lets face it, the nature of photography buyers has changed - everything changes all the time, and I just pretend there is another world just waiting around the corner with a higher state of conciousness. So in the meantime, practice - practice - practice. <G> my kind regards Willam Curwen http://www.william.ws =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
