RE: Cosina Flash 35E - I Break, I Fix, I Break Again
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I think that film photography is kinda similar to the "slow food" concept. Phone photos are sometimes called "clicks" and that's exactly what they are. Cheap and worthless. Great Art is slow. Not necessary expensive though. 😃📸
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I agree with you.
With a digital camera you can get accurate photos of the reality immediately and the world is full of that kind of photos. I'm a little bit fed up with that because it's too easy and if I want the photos to be something else than pixel perfect representations of the reality, I need to do post processing and that sometimes bores me. Too many options and I can't decide. With an old camera and film, it takes away a huge amount of options and the fact that will the photo be a good one in my eyes is mostly left to chance since I lack photographing skills and the cameras are what they are, old, and all that fascinates me. Accidental art or art in co-operation with me and the camera. That is, if the film camera gods will it. 😁
True, so true!
Let's put it that way, with the "modern" photography, sometimes it's all about clicking a shutter, and that shutter is more and more only a few pixels, a virtual button on a screen. Not that it's bad but our own "influence" over the final photo is less and less by the day.
Film photography "fixes" that problem. There are so many things we could do or not do that affect the end photo.
Probably that's the reason more and more people return to film, in full, from placing the film inside, the developing with prepping the solutions, etc. and transferring it to paper. And probably AI will help making non-digital art much more esteemed. The future will tell.
If you believe all the likes that people generally give to photos in social media, you could say that photos that are post processed so that saturation is so much over that it hurts my eyes and extreme HDR toning used so that everything, white and black areas are revealed by the tiniest detail, then film photography (or any kind of genuinely beautiful art photography) has no chance to be valued also in public eyes. It'll remain a niche art form.
I certainly hope so, although we haven't seen the total peak of AI art yet. My opinion is, rather gloomy one, that general opinion does not value that much the work behind the art. If an AI makes great art in the future, without any human touch, the general opinion might turn in to: "Who needs artists when we have AI?" and "New art can be generated so easily and is so much better that any human artist." The word better and the opinion of what is good art is of course debatable but again the work behind the AI code would be forgotten. By the masses.
But as I said, that's a rather gloomy opinion or prediction of the future, let's hope humanity generally will start valuing more the work behind any ready made product, art and film photography especially.
Exactly! Very well said!
Perhaps at a certain point we, I mean people in general, will start to appreciate the time spent to create something. Useful or useless, beautiful or ugly, creative or destructive, these are all a matter of perspective.
The Future promises to be much more interesting, if we live up to see it.