So, what is the draw? To me, film is so perfectly imperfect. Here are some of the things that I discovered about working with film again - and a great little preset that emulates film pretty nicely as well.
I dug out the Nikon N65 and starting remembering how to photograph with it. I was drawn to some of the work I was seeing on Instagram, and after a little research, determined that the much sought after look many photographers were going for was actually based on FILM. Now it seems that everything old is new again, from vinyl to Pokemon. No more scanning, just these cute little cards that went straight into my computer. I invested in my first digital camera in 2002, a Nikon D100 with “ an incredible, film-rivaling 6.1 megapixels”. When I first began my professional career, the industry was still shooting film so my life involved a lot of time with a scanner. I dragged that camera around everywhere with me. Time moved on, as time is apt to do, and my parents bought me my own 35mm, a Nikon N65. I moved on and began using my dad’s Pentax 35 mm camera when I was in high school, and that is also when I learned to develop my own film in the darkroom. The first camera I remember was one of those old Instamatic cameras with the flash cube. I first started photography, like most of us did, by picking up our parents’ cameras and snapping images. Mandy Meece Johnson, Mandy Johnson Photography Life is soft and blurry so i think that is why people tend to be drawn to the film images, they just don’t really know why!” There is a forgiveness with film, a little blur and softness adds to the beauty where with digital the expectation is super sharp & crisp. “In a day of instant, film brings with it the anticipation and wait and the beauty in reliving those moments weeks later. Inspired Print Competition Winners Galleries.International Image Competitions Winners Galleries.Unity Image Competition Winners Gallery.
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