If you're a photographer that started out in digital and then went to film, you're going to be very surprised by what I'm about to tell you. Okay, ready? It's almost impossible to get the most out of a film negative through scanning it.
The best way to do it is to print directly from the negative in the darkroom by burning and dodging the image. . thephoblographer.com
The sad truth is that film photography genuinely needs to evolve. Fujifilm and a few other brands have been trying to push that over the years. But digital will always find a way to catch up. Right? Well, that might not be the case.
I am Florian Pagano. I am a French professional photographer based in Indonesia for 11 years. I started photography 20 years ago when I got an analog camera SLR and lenses from a retiring fashion photographer (Nikon F90x with 80-200mm and 50mm AF lenses).
“I think it would be best if we delay the shoot. ”…that was part of an email I received in early March, right about the time I was thinking that my year wasn’t looking too bad, business-wise. I work as a commercial photographer in Vancouver, Canada and I had enjoyed a fairly prosperous couple of months.
Chris Niccolls over at DPReview TV recently got a chance to try out Nikon’s $140 ES-2 ‘Film Digitizing Adapter’: a convenient attachment that works with Nikon’s DSLRs to let you quickly and easily “scan” your old 35mm slides and negatives.
The hybrid processes from the transition to digital photography generated lots of garbage, cheap stuff to experiment with. This story is about one of these discoveries. Background Photography came into my life in my teenage years, at a point when I was already someone who always checked inside dumpsters trying to find interesting things to […]
Film photographer, educator and YouTuber Nick Carver doesn’t shoot digital, but he does scan his film for printing. So he recently embarked on an experiment to figure out which scanning technique is best: drum scanning, fluid mount flatbed scanning, or scanning your film using a DSLR and macro lens. First things first: this is a […]
When most people look at prints, they often see them in one way: glossy and pretty high contrast--but Red River Palo Duro Etching paper is looking to turn that on its head. Red River Palo Duro Etching paper is a matte paper designed to print in a way that emulates what a photographer would get in the darkroom.