Film v's Digital?
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- bigtrick0
challenge accepted.
this is my own photo. it was taken digitally. had it been taken with a film camera, i would not have noticed that the liquid spilling from the glass did not catch the light adequately, and would not have instructed the model to move her hand a bit in a certain direction before spilling.
this shot was selected out of several dozen in the same exact pose. which was, i should add, already set up with standins before the models were ready. this was one of six set-up shots for the shoot day, and i needed to work extremely quickly. i shot several hundred exposures in that day, and managed to select the best of those. i couldn't have been nearly as flexible with film.
the power of digital, in this case, is that i can shoot-refine-shoot-refine-shoot, until i have exactly what i want.
film is all very nice, and you could make arguments that you can test with polaroids, but unless you shoot it specifically for its particular characteristics, as 2 posted on the previous page, it is simply outdated. digital is faster, more accurate, easier.