With the influx of available technology, it's easier to make photographs then ever before. However, because of this ease of access, some novice photographers are not as careful as they should be when beginning to learn photography.
What are your thoughts to this question? What are the pros and cons of going digital? Should we hang on to darkroom photography?
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I feel that both digital and film photography have their benefits. Digital photography opens up the field to anyone that has a camera. It can be a good starting block for beginning photographers and is also a useful tool for people who just are interested in capturing candid moments. Digital photography has created an entirely new art form out of editing and digital manipulation.
ReplyDeleteEven though digital photography has serious benefits, film should not be phased out. Taking a picture on a digital camera and uploading it to a computer does not have the same type of satisfaction as taking a good shot on a film camera and putting it all the way through the developing process. Even if you do not develop the photos yourself, film can still be a fun thing to play around with. I know that many of my friends (including me) have film cameras(all from urban outfitters of course)that we love to mess around with. We like the surprise of not knowing what the picture will look like until after and the certain quality of pictures that come out.
Either way, photography is a fun thing that everyone should be able to use.
One of the film cameras my friend uses: http://microsites.lomography.com/dianamini/
Digital photography has apparently changed the world in many ways. but honestly we can not all be so dependent on one little devise. In many ways it is an advancement but can cause us to be too obsessed on digital and im pretty sure that alot of people would love to get back to the bases. Sometimes playing in the darkroom can be fun and rewarding, not to mention the experiences and challeges we learn and find out on the way.
ReplyDeleteIf you are simply taking photographs for fun, digital photography is probably the better choice. It allows one to take as many photos as you want in one sitting, letting amateur photographs learn through practice and trial and error. In the long run, digital photography is also cheaper than film photography. Digital photography is the choice for those who want to be able to easily share their photos with friends and family through the internet. In this age of social connectivity digital photography is the best choice for non-professional photographers.
ReplyDeleteHowever, we should still hang on to film/darkroom photography. Film photography can lend a deeper and more mysterious feel to a photograph. Also, film photography teaches people photography better than digital does especially because one has to take time to learn the settings on their camera, in order to set up their perfect photo. Also, creating a print of your negative is a lot more satisfying than just uploading and printing your photos through your computer. I think in order for photography to survive as a serious art medium we need both digital and film photography.
http://www.mattspinelli.com/digitalvsfilm.html
http://www.digicamguides.com/introduction/pros-and-cons.html
*I believe that both digital and film photography have there own pros and cons and both are very important. Both film and digital photography create different feelings*
ReplyDeleteFilm photography is very interesting and is something that we must hold on to. Film photography is more complicated because you must learn all parts o9f your camera and it requires pre-knowledge on aperture and shutter speed. As well as knowing how to load film into the camera. I believe that digital photography is very different then digital. Film photography requires knowledge on how to work a camera, but I am very sure that anyone can learn to operate. Despite the understanding that must go into the operating of the camera, it is very fascinating. Film photography created patience and forces one to be prosise with their work. Film photography is very interesting and should be kept!
Digital photography is also very interesting and believe that it is much easier to take pictures with a digital camera. Digital photography allows people to save photos on a hard drive, people are also allowed to crop and edit their pictures. Along with film photography, I believe that digital photography is interesting! Digital photography allows us to use different settings. Digital photography is a new revolution in today's society anjd is something that we must definitely use!
I believe that a photographer must first learn how to operate a film camera in order to establish patience in their art. Digital cameras can definitely be used if you consider a profession in photography! :)
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I think that both film and digital photography are especially useful for different things. Digital and film photography are very different and both have their advantages. Digital photography is more like for a beginner photographer and is very easy to pick up while film photography is harder to pick up and takes a lot of more work to see your photo when with digital you can just look at the picture right after you take it. Digital photography also allowed pictures to be easily duplicated and easy to make several different sizes or prints with the picture.
ReplyDeleteAlthough film photography may not be as easy to pick up or as easy to understand and be successful with, I don't think that it should be abolished. Digital photography is easy to see the picture quickly and much easier to tell if you need to take another picture. But, film photography, I think, is more fun and can teach someone a lot more. I think it's more fun in the sense that developing your own pictures is entertaining, and waiting and hoping for you pictures to come back and turn out positive is always entertaining. Also, you learn much more about photography by using film photography because it shows people what you have to do in order to get a good, developed picture. And it also shows you how people used to have to develop and see their final picture. Photography is a fun and entertaining thing for everyone, and I don't think film photography should be completely abolished.
I personally think that digital photography is a great way for us to access photography more easily. Digital photography is growing rapidly, and in the future, I think that it will be the future of photography. Even if some people argue that digital photography is for "novice" photographers, I feel like that anyone can become professional. The process of digital photography can be complicated also. It entails knowing how to use technology and computers along with the camera. Photoshop and other editing applications entail much learning also. Darkroom, film photography is a complicated process, and most people don't have access to darkrooms, and instructions on how to use the cameras, which decreases the popularity in the future. Of course, it's great to learn darkroom photography. It is good for setting foundations, especially for a career in photography. Darkroom photography should definitely be kept. It has history, and should always be apart of photography still, but nowadays, what we need is easy, quick access
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Film photography and darkroom development enable individuals to examine the finer points of photography. In using more obsolete technology, one is better able to learn about camera settings and the origin of the photo. Film photography is more complex and requires more precision than digital photography. Those who want to learn how to use their camera and its settings benefit by learning to use film cameras prior to the easy-to-use digital cameras on the market. Film photography enables those interested in photography to learn the true functions their camera, as opposed to the automatic and easy-to-use settings on the digital camera.
ReplyDeleteWhereas in digital photography, even the most inexperienced photographers can create magnificent works. Digital photography is used by the bulk of society because of its convenience and ability for mass production. However, film photography and darkroom development continue to remain the base of all photography.
Sources:
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Has-the-digital-age-left-the-dark-room-behind-9955
http://best-digital-cameras.info/the-changing-face-of-modern-day-photography-2/
I think that people will still be careful in photography if they re trying professional photo. Today's digital photography allows people to take as many pictures as they want and take pictures of their trips and stuff. There you do not need to be careful. If you will do professional photo they must be careful learning any kind of photo so it wouldn't make a difference.
ReplyDeleteAnd with things like snap fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapfish) where you can print digital photos that personally look a lot better than film prints. So the old techniques will soon go obsolete because its just to much of a hassle for non-professional photographers.
For Professional photographers they might actually want to use film photo because like Megan said "type of satisfaction as taking a good shot on a film camera and putting it all the way through the developing process" It also gives people the feeling of actually holding their art and not just cropping and changing colors on a computer screen.
Film photography being the older and more traditional method of taking photos allows you to more precisely and accurately change your settings such as aperture, focus, and shutter speed to fit each environment. It allows for one to take a more detailed photo, and it teaches one to learn more in depth about the settings of a camera, what they do, and how they interact with each other to create a good picture. With film photography, one can learn the traditional process of developing and the complexities behind the original methods of photography. Film overall would be more useful for professional photography.
ReplyDeleteDigital photography on the other hand allows more people to take photos despite lack of experience. It's more convenient and it allows for one to take a mass amount of photos at any given moment and place. It also allows for people to edit photos using photoshop and other applications in order to add effects or create pictures that cannot be taken otherwise. Since it's digital, spreading photos with mass media over the internet, magazines, and other templates is a lot easier. Both film and digital photography have their pros and cons, but overall both are equally useful being that they are more applicable to different situations.
I believe that the classic darkroom method should be preserved because behind this long process until finally holding the final print in your hands lies somehow a tradition that should not get lost. Film photography definitely is more time-consuming, to take one shoot one has to consider so many things, one needs the right aperture, focus, shutter speed, suitable light...But after developing the print you hold something in your hands that is unique, something that one can't just copy like in digital photography. Film photography is also a beneficial way to learn the workings of the camera. I for example used digital cameras for a looong time without even having heard of terms like "aperture" or "shutter speed".
ReplyDeleteDigital photography on the other hand is easy to use and convenient. It provides a simple way to correct mistakes because after every picture taken you can review it on the camera. Furthermore you can "abuse" the picture on the computer as much as you want to and even create pictures that has nothing to do with reality any more. With digital photography one does not have to change rolls of film and has more control after taking photos. One can crop or adjust the colors for the proofs, then do own touch-ups in house. Over the years, primarily price wars and declining prices of digital cameras have dominated and driven digital cameras to the mass market. For instance, Eastman Kodak Co. discontinued selling reloadable film cameras in early 2004 in the United States and other developed markets, responding to a decline in demand as interest in digital cameras increased.
I think if one is just interested in shooting pictures for fun, digital cameras are definitely the better choice; whereas if one wants to get more involved in photography, one should consider film photography at least for developing an understanding for the workings - that can benefit you with digital photography, too.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/16/20040616-095521-5280r/?page=2
as most of the other people that have commented so far have pointed out, digital is signifficantly easier than dark room photography. as we progress in the 21st century, digital photography is becoming more prominent than darkroom photography due mostly to how cheap and how easy it is to become a film photographer. now most movies are created with a computer rather than a camera and most consumers purchase only digital peraphenilia when shopping for a camera. acording to an edition of the Washington Times, " in five to 10 years, [film] will progressively disappear" in short darkroom photography is on its way out.
ReplyDeleteIs it good that film will no longer be around? The answer is no. digital photography can be manipulated so easily that anyone can doctor a photo these days. often times you don't even need to pay any money to get a program that can preform the basic functions of cropping and erasing. in the early days of photography, people liked seeing photographs because it gave them proof that something was real. now photography has lost that credibility. film photography still remains credible however, as it is significantly harder to alter a digital photo. because it's so much harder film photographs hold a certain weight behind them that digital never will again, and for this reason we should keep darkroom photography.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/16/20040616-095521-5280r/
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ReplyDeleteDigital photography is easier than film photography to use because you can see the picture right after you take it. Also you don't need any film you can take as many pictures as you would like. Film photography is harder to load and get the perfect picture the first time. I went on to the internet and searched film photography vs. digital photography and got
ReplyDeletethe advantages and disadvantages and film and digital photography:
Film
Lower initial cost
Better at capturing detail in whites and blacks (dynamic range)
More forgiving of minor focusing issues
More forgiving of exposure problems
Film is still higher resolution
Cameras are generally heavier
Film can take up a lot of space
Film is a continuing cost
Film must be developed before viewing
Unless you have a darkroom, you are dependent on the lab to edit your images
Digital
Higher initial cost
Can easily lose detail in whites and blacks
10 Megapixels is high enough resolution for very large prints
Cameras are generally lighter
Memory cards are small
One memory card can store more images than a dozen rolls of film
Images can be viewed immediately
You can edit your images
Only print the images you like
Many cameras have built-in filters
http://photography.about.com/od/filmvsdigital/a/FilmVsDigital.htm
I think if someone really enjoy photography and want to take time to do it then they should know how to use a darkroom. I think it is a very interesting skill one could have. The film/darkroom process has been around for years: Why stop it now? Just because we have an easier way of picture taking doesn't mean we can take the hundreds of years of darkroom some have contributive to. Both types of photography are fun and film photography should be preserved.
I believe that digital photography makes it much easier for the average photographer to take a large quantity of photos with relatively good quality. It also helps inept photographers correct their mistakes with ease. Though these advancements are great, digital cameras still don't let people control the settings as well or type of photo they want to take in the same way that film cameras do. While they do allow a little bit less creativity in that respect, digital technology gives the shooter a much wider range of different effects to manipulate the photos after shooting.
ReplyDeleteBecause of the widespread availability of cameras, today people have the ability not only to take a large amount of photos, but take pictures with better quality than ever before. Photography used to be a process reserved only for professionals. You would take a photo, guess on some of the settings, and hope for the best with no idea whether your shot turned out the way you wanted. A couple weeks later, after it was developed at the local Walgreens, you would realize your film was overexposed or not taken fast enough. Unfortunately, it would be too late to do anything about it, resulting in precious memories not being saved. This was not the only problem with film photography. With film, you had a couple rolls of twelve shots each to capture all the moments from an event. Not only did you only have 24 shots per roll, but changing film was a pain. Today, digital photography makes the process far more convienient. With digital photography, you can take up to 400 photos in a single sitting. That's over twenty rolls in one night. Another way digital cameras make photography more convienient is with instant feedback. You see the shot you just took a second after clicking the button, something unheard of in the days of film. This allows you to adjust settings and answers the question that used to stress out every novice photographer: Did I get the shot? Because of the huge amount of space on the camera, even if you mess up a shot ten times, there's enough room to make up again for the perfect picture. But the real genius of digital photography lies in the improved quality of photographs. For the casual photographer, digital cameras create the perfect storm: the perfect photos are just a click away. Digital cameras automatically adjust the key settings to make a photo- aperature and shutter speed, giving the photographer high quality shots every time. This is opposed to film cameras, which require settings to be adjusted each time and involve a lot of guesswork and pure luck. But digital cameras have another added bonus. If for some reason you don't like the shot you took, it can be easily edited on the computer to make it perfect. One doesn't even need software like Adobe Photoshop to crop the photo and change the color settings drastically. Unlike film photography, the whole process is made infinitely simpler. With film, it takes time and money to darken a simple light spot with a $35 set of pens. Digital editing even allows you to add objects or change the background to the photograph- soemthing unheard of in the world of digital photography. In conclusion, digital cameras and computers make it much easier for the casual photographer to take pictures and edit them in new ways, but they can't capture the same majestic feel that comes with original film photography.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_versus_film_photography
I believe that digital photography and black and white photography both have its pros and cons, and so, black and white photography should be preserved while digital photography expands. Digital photography makes the process of taking pictures and uploading them far easier, and broadens the art of photography to novices. Digital cameras automatically adjust settings such as ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed, that the basic cameras do not. Then, photographs can be easily uploaded to the computer's database, attached to e-mails, or edited or enhanced with applications like Adobe Photoshop, rather than going through the long and tedious dark room methods. The quality of digital photography is also rapidly improving, and over a period of time, its quality will surpass dark room photography.
ReplyDeleteDark room photography, however, is far more intriguing and suspenseful (even stressful for that matter). It is the classic form of photography, where photographers have to monitor their settings, develop their film, and then take prints. A photographer can easily make a mistake, and it is far harder to fix than digital photography. Yet, it is far more professional, and it is for photographers who are willing to take more time, for the chance of a better and higher quality picture.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filmdig.htm
I believe that both film and digital photography offer their own pros and cons to photography. Digital photography allows novice photographers to document important events in their lives. It is also much easier to pick up than film photography and much cheaper. Digital photography doesn't have to be printed in order to share with others. All that is required is to attach pictures to an email and then send it to whoever you would like. However there is less ability to scrapbook with digital photography because it is mostly on a computer rather than hard copies.
ReplyDeleteFilm photography for all its old technology allows master darkroom photographers to alter film chemically. They major drawback in my opinion is that you cannot see what you are taking while you take the picture and therefore don't know whether or not your picture is good
Overall, I think that film photography captures more details in another perspective than digital photography does. I agree with many people who said that film photography is for photographers who are more serious and eager to learn smaller, more in depth details. Film photography helps capture images in different points of view and helps broaden the range in which objects can be perceived. Film pictures makes the viewers really think about what they are seeing and why the picture was taken the way it was. I feel the darkroom should still be used because I think it's just a fun way for many people to experiment and learn new styles and techniques. Although a film camera is more heavy and is more complex to use it is still important because it shows the range of settings there are on a camera.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, digital photography is also important because it helps show more range in an image. By seeing the colors of an image people can manipulate them and use them to their advantage to take more photos that show contrast. I think digital photography is mainly used by people who aren't as serious about photography and just want to take pictures for pleasure and, or, to capture a special moment for any specific events. Digital photography is good for capturing several images at once while being to see the image immediately after.
Both film and digital photography are useful because they create different ways in which people can capture events.
Sources:
http://photography.about.com/od/filmvsdigital/a/FilmVsDigital.htm
http://macmaineiac.com/articles/03a/050903a.html
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Nowadays, if you look around you don't see many people pulling out a bulky film camera from their bag taking snapshots. Film cameras are big and inconvenient in most cases. It takes at least a couple minutes to get all the setting right to make sure the aperture isn't too open, the shutter speed isn't too slow, or the lighting isn't too dark. Without taking the time to adjust and tweak these little knobs, the photos developed from a film camera would turn out terrible. Because film cameras are so tedious, it is often more common to use a normal digital camera. On the other hand, film cameras have their own magic. In being able to develop negatives and watch the pictures appear on the photo paper, photography becomes even more fascinating. Photos from film cameras appear more "real" most of the time and are not pixelated.
ReplyDeleteDigital Cameras are more useful because you can take photos by one click. The camera adjusts its settings for you, so that if you decide to take a photo right at that instant, you won't have to waste your time fiddling with settings and miss the photo opportunity. There are many different types of digital cameras. Some are very simple and only allow the photographer to click the shutter button. Others have many settings such as landscape, sport, indoors, night time, and so on to help the photographer get better photos based on their conditions. There are even digital cameras that enable the photographer to be in control of all the same settings that are in a film camera! Most photographers can find what they need in a digital camera.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filmdig.htm