![]() It didn't matter so much whether it was B/W or color as the fact that there was only one choice for the day. One of my rules, and I think it is still applicable, is that when I went out to shoot, I'd only use one sort of film. This is an example of creativity under constraint. Having a simple system with a single lens let me concentrate my mind on what was possible with that and the results were often good. I did, however, learn that having too many options at my fingertips on a "shoot" hindered learning. Good enough that some of my stuff I'm willing to see on my walls. It was long ago that I learned photography and I got pretty good at it. For photography, you also want to train your eye. My advice for learning photography is the same that it would be for learning pretty much anything. Most of your photographs will always seem to have composition problems if you are learning and improving. ![]() Because as you get better, the bar for well composed photographs will keep getting higher. The hardest part of learning to make well composed photographs will probably be giving yourself permission to make many many poorly composed photographs along the way. And trying things that didn't work before is the only way of knowing if they work now. Trying a lot of different things is the only way to figure out what works for you (and what doesn't work for you). What "people" say is better is mostly irrelevant because everyone is different. There is no reason a person cannot make both digital and analog pictures. There is no reason a person cannot make black and white pictures. Studying composition can be helpful, but it is not a substitute for making mistakes of your very own. The more you practice composition by making pictures the better you will get. The way to get better at composition is to compose pictures. Black and white can just be less costly than color. But, I still use my original 50mm lense manufactured in January 1987.Ĭompared to digital, there is no cheap black and white film either. It was not worth the cost to have the shutter mechanism replaced. I say had, past tense, because both of my original EOS bodies ( 650 and 620) broke. So, if I had the desire to shoot film again, I could set it up on the digital and then use the same lens and lights on the film camera for the final shot. I had both film and digital bodies that take the same lenses and accessories. They had spot meters for carefully taking measurements off the ground glass screen, to quantize the bright/dark values, before making an exposure.
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