do not delete your pictures iii – some film photography
in the thoughts about my growing love to imperfection in photography (maybe not only in photography), that i started in my previous post, i spoke mainly about digital photography that also these days remains a primary for me. but how it’s possible not to say about a film photography, that i can call a “queen of imperfection”. Just think about – how many unsuccessful moment taken with digital, would have been immediately erased because of the fact that one can look at the display and find a blinked eye of the groom or bride. this is impossible with film. as well as suddenly appeared car or human at the background of the photographed scene.
closed eyes, crooked smile, hair scattered by wind, incomplete sentence, unusual emotional pose – all this we can find in the old archives 60-90 years photography. sometimes not in focus, sometimes grainy and noisy but still warm and continuously stunning.
i’m not the one who is talking about film-digital photography war. i’m the one who know exactly which camera i will take with me, but sometimes the meaning of “imperfection” is film for me. i learned to disable the image preview in my markii digital camera – less clicks of the same subject plus more battery life are promised !
all images posted here exposed with Ricoh GR1s film camera on Fomapan 400, Kodak Tmax 400 films. 4-9 images developed with a stand technique – 60 minutes with two pauses for agitation – every 20 minutes.
enjoy the grainy mood…
Perfect imperfection… 😉
Thank you very much !
I love grain. I like digital photos, of course, but I miss the beautiful imperfection of the film… 🙁
Imperfect and fascinating Stuff!!
Thank you Paula !! I have a lot of grainy stuff developed but still not scanned.
i must try disabling my LCD screen and stop chimping. These are great Victor, thanks for sharing
Shure you willlove this. Thank you very much !
Remarkable work Victor! Gritty, moody, and real, just the way I like it!!
thank you Sam ! i’ll add more for this series – taken with film and also digital 🙂
I hope you do Victor, that would be great for this excellent series!!
great reading and photos….i have been thinking in this direction too
Thank you Pavel. Looks like thats a part of our griwing process as phitigraoers !
I spent a long time searching for perfect light, perfect moment, perfect exposure, perfect spot….
encouraging ! They are moments captured that will never happen again and there is a certain artistic language they speak. Sometimes a photo represents just how fast life is moving or how blurry life feels ..more realistically than a very clear still shot. Nonetheless, both types should be appreciated and I’m so glad that you brought this to ‘light’. Thank you !
Amen to that. I so agree with you. Wonderful images too.
queen of imperfection… love that!!
yet these seem perfect to me, Victor 🙂 you’ve captured fleeting moments so well and in such artistic manner…
Right now i find more and more your comments from todays visit Alexandra. Aboit imperfection – i had some interesting conversation yesterday about how this hi-res digital photography just changed our vision in photography. With film cameras was impossible to check immediately after the click so part of images remain woth closed eyes or slightly unfocused. But it wasn’t a big deal. And now if something mot in a crispy focus people just delete the image or take a few dozens of another images of the same place.