Monthly Archives: November 2011

The biggest differences between chemical and digital photography occur after the image is captured. I found it instructive to go through the exhaustive – and exhausting – details of the chemical and digital photographic processes in the previous posts.  Going … Continue reading →

Having figured out from the proofed images which ones I wanted to print, here’s what I is to do (toward the end, I have elided a great deal of the detail so as to minimize boredom – both mine and … Continue reading →

Here’s the way I used to proof 35mm B&W negatives (I used plastic pages as a negative storage and proofing device, tolerating the loss of proofing sharpness and eliminating several potentially negative damaging steps using methods that permit direct negative … Continue reading →

Okay, now the images are captured, either on film or digitally. The next step is to get them ready for proofing. Sticking with the mainstream process of 35mm black and white roll film, a typical set of steps is as … Continue reading →

Before we leave the capture phase, we should consider a film art photographic genre that is, arguably, photography at its most right-brain: box camera (or toy camera) photography. Cameras like the Holga and Diana offer limited or nonexistent user control … Continue reading →

We move on to another historically important art photography capture genre, cameras that are used when maximum quality is desired, and size, weight, convenience, and speed of operation are all much less important. In the film world, this usually means … Continue reading →

In the previous post, I compared the experience of capturing images using professional-level 35mm single lens reflexes both with film and digitally. I’d like to move on to other cameras with historically large roles in art photography. Next up is … Continue reading →

Over the weekend, I attended a CPA members’ workshop. In one of the plenary sessions, someone said that digital photography and conventional chemical photography were qualitatively different in that the former was a left brain activity, and the latter used … Continue reading →