“Mulling it over, I couldn’t articulate it fully but definitely, I knew I had become lazy, really lazy. A spectacular sloth by the standards of shooting film. Film is hard. Film is a stone cold unforgiving killing bastard. Film is once in a lifetime, no excuses. F8 and really, really be there: ready, steady, in focus, correct exposure, and pressing the shutter in synch with life.”
Doug Menuez said that, just this morning. And if you are unaware of Mr. Menuez, start taking notes. You may recall the piece he wrote that I linked to a couple months ago called Surviving Your Own Photography Career.
Well, a couple weeks ago, I had a long brunch with Doug in NYC. Great photographer, amazing man. We talked about some really heavy stuff and, alternatively, we laughed our asses off. He’s now clicked into 2.0 mode, and is writing regularly over at his new blog Doug Menuez 2.0: Go Fast, Don’t Crash.
Pay him a visit. Often. And start by reading the rest of the post above titled the Zen of Film vs. Digital Gratification.
[BTW, like Doug, I’m a closet film shooter. About once a month. It feels so brutish and raw. Hurts so good. Let that be our little secret…] —
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Closet film shooter? Jeez, I’m more like a closet digital shooter! A guy I work switched to digital a couple of years ago, and it came up in conversation that he had a bag of those freebie rolls that you get when you process film at the local chemist. Didn’t know what to do with them, they were out of date, he was probably going to dump them. Shock and horror from me, and a bit of glee too, said I would take them off his hands. So he brings in a bag with 24 or 25 rolls of Agfa Colour 200iso out of date film. It’ll take me a while to get through it, but definately one of the pluses of shooting film in this new digital era!
Hi Chase, nice blog. I found my way here via strbist which I found via Mike Johnson, and which has led me to you, Joe McNally, Zack Arias, squeeze the lime, and now heading on towards Doug Menuez by the looks of it. All great stuff and really opened my eyes again. I have my Holga, my Nikon F90, my Mamiya RB67 and my D300. The latter is great for shooting my clients, but the first three are all for me.
Rory