Wellllllllllllllll..... I was playing around with some of the effects and started thinking about things i could do with my pictures. Suffice to say, maybe I spoke to soon when i was bashing digital stuff... I still prefer film and have no intention of switching my medium any time soon. But I definitely plan on playing with the options that digital format allows.
For example... a friend of mine suggested putting one of my pictures in sepia to reduce the glare from the sky. It was a stormy rainy day in Pisa, which made for some awesome backgrounds behind the tower of Pisa, but glary sky at the river. But, part of the whole reason why I took this one picture, was because I liked the colors of the buildings. So the little lightbulb in my head went off and i thought.... wait a second... maybe I can have the best of both worlds.... and viola!!
Basically...all the stuff you can do in Photoshop, etc... you can do with film in the darkroom...the darkroom just takes way longer and costs lots of money for all the chemicals, lens filters and stuff. Sometimes it's hard to get the exact photo you want due to lighting. With digital it just makes it easier. You can properly expose the sky in one photo and the buildings in the other and put them together...in the darkroom or the computer.
ReplyDeleteStill, there's nothing like printing your own photos in a real darkroom.