Archive for the 'Film' Category

Losing Memories to Digital

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of digital when it comes to photography. I embraced digital from the start, and spend a huge amount of my time working with digital tools and helping many photographers learn to do the same. But there is a darker side to digital. I think it is stealing […]

Shutters of the Wrong Kind

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

It has almost become cliché to talk about how digital has changed the photography industry. Some of those changes have been very good (such as the control photographers are able to exercise over their images), and some of those changes have been bad (such as the significantly more time photographers need to spend in order […]

Film’s Comeback?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I was doing a little holiday shopping in Seattle over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and will admit to being a little shocked at what I saw…
Lots of cameras. OK, that’s not exactly a surprise. And in fact at first I wasn’t shocked at all. I hardly noticed. Then I saw this cute, tiny little […]

Wet Color Printing

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I got my “real” start in photography in high school, when I took a photography class and spent many untold hours in the wet darkroom, producing prints from my black and white negatives. I spent many years working with film, but jumped into digital quite early, and for the most part haven’t looked back.
While I […]

Film Confessions

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

This is not an easy blog entry for me to write. It involves me admitting that I shot a few rolls of film recently. There, I said it. And I feel better already.
Here’s the story. I found myself in Hawaii recently, with a very specific plan: do absolutely nothing. It seemed like a good idea […]