If you follow me on other social networks then you’ll know I’m going a bit crazy raving about this, but it needs to be talked about. Over the past few months I’ve been dabbling in film photography; that is, photography taken on an analogue camera as opposed to my standard digital methods. There’s something so authentic about taking pictures on film, but in all honesty, I didn’t expect it to amount to much.
I went to collect my first ever batch of photographs earlier today, and my god!, they are something else! The colour of the pictures happen so naturally and the blur of an affordable camera becomes vintage. I love it! I absolutely love it! I don’t know why it ends up like this; maybe it’s just the fashion of photography now-a-days, but you could argue that the real benefits of analogue photography are that vintage-look, with such rich colour and depth.
I find with digital photography, I can take one hundred photos carelessly and one or two will end up decent, and then they will have to go through an excessive process of colour correction and enhancement before they’re ready. Whereas I found with film, I can get at least 10 completely ready photos out of 40 I take, no extra work needed. Obviously the development process is just as long, but as I don’t have my own dark room, I’m not involved in that. So the benefits of using film really do stand out.
Don’t get me wrong, I love digital photography and the freedom it gives you to snap away, edit, enhance, ect; but I have discovered a deep down admiration of film photography which gives you such natural richness. And I thought I’d just tell the world that! I think the trick is that with analogue photography you have to think firmly about each individual shot so that once you press that button you’re not wasting the mildly expensive film you’ve purchased. Unlike in digital, where you can take as many photos as can fill your SD card so you have no worries about getting it wrong first time.
I’ll finish by clarifying the title and expressing my final enthusiasm for this whole charade. My film camera is the Olympus mju! Mju! The Greek letter, involved with physics and maths which makes me feel very cool… No, it really does. So thank you for reading this, especially if its not your thing normally. If you want to see all of the photos I took then they are all on my Flickr or if you’re a tumblr nerd, I created a photoblog, ‘Lest us be monsters’. Have a lovely week!
Thank you so much for your comment on my previous blog ♥♥ I really appreciate it and it did make me feel better, and now I try to think of it whenever I get sad again, haha.
Those photos are gorgeous! I don’t know a lot about photography, but I think I understand the basics of what you’re talking about digital vs. analogue. It does seem a lot more effective than digital photography, though I suppose you’ll have to be less spontaneous with taking pictures, then.
Hope you have a lovely week, too!
Oh my God, those photos are stunning! I’ve always been slave to a digital camera, be it a proper camera or one in my phone, and it’s always served me well enough. You’re right about the depth and colour, though. I didn’t even think that was possible.
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Well, Jack Harkness teleporting me away ought to happen, but unfortunately I don’t think it will. 🙁
I know what you mean. I sleep in the pitch black. Or, well, I try to, but my sister’s always turning the hallway light on.
I love spiders! My friend Meg is like you, though, she hates them. I just don’t find the ordinary household ones that scary.
I once held a tarantula, but if I saw one now I would totally freak.
Take care! xx
Wow your photos are amazing. I completely agree with you that while digital is great, film photography is a little better. I like that it doesn’t have to be heavily edited it seems more authentic. I remember when I was little I would take a ton of pictures and my mum would get them printed and it was fun later looking at the photos I took.
I’m not a great photographer so nowadays I tend to stay away from film cameras just because film is a little expensive =\.