Just cover your display screen with black tape and pretend you're
shooting film. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
>> I admit the time pressure is one of the reason but
>> more important is the 'film' is free. I know this bad habit can be
>> corrected
>> but it is just not easy so I prefer a total OM system which will slow me
>> down.
>>
>
>
> I've been shooting enough film this year to choke a giraffe. I've kinda
> taken an opposite attitude about "digital is cheaper and faster" thing.
> With the exception of obvious high-wastage shoots (sports, wildlife), my
> shooting rate of DIFFERENT shots is actually higher with film.
>
> Seems counter-intuitive, but stick with me...
>
> With film, I'm shooting only one or two pictures of a given composition. By
> not leaning on the technology, my confidence in the exposure and focus is
> much greater. No need to shoot more because I know I got the shot the first
> time. I'll usually shoot two, just for insurance in case I have a scratched
> negative or an eye-blink, but otherwise that's it. Instead of shooting
> multiples of a given picture, I've moved on right away to the next
> composition. My mentality when shooting digital is "making sure I get THIS
> picture right", but with film, my mentality is "making sure I get the NEXT
> picture right".
>
> The end result is that by the end of the day I am getting up to twice the
> compositions than I'm getting when shooting digital within the same period
> of time. Initially, when I went digital, it was the other way
> around--precisely because of cost per image. But thanks to improved
> scanning and processing technology and emulsions, I've completely converted
> from slide to print films with the price advantage of negs. My running
> per-shot rate is 15-22 cents depending on film and lab. That compares to
> over 50 cents per frame with slides.
>
> So, basically, what is happening to me, is that with film, I'm not bogged
> down tweaking, chimping, tweaking, chimping... to get the shot.
>
> In the next installment of the Auto-Racing articles, I have a picture of a
> "DO NOT DO THIS" moment. I photographed another photographer who was at the
> fence (ie, crash zone) who wasn't watching the action, but was busy chimping
> instead. Unfortunately, the picture didn't show her doing the unpardonable
> sin--turning her back to the cars as she was doing that more often than not.
>
> AG
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