I've decided to experiment with making this blog half-way a photo blog. Maybe I'll do an exclusive photo blog, I dunno. They seem really popular, traffic-wise.
Anyway, this is a recent photo of a local church. One of the few I take these days which seemed to improve by being made into monochrome.
I heard someone say that Kodak have ended black and white processing altogether now, which, if true, is a shame.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it has been superceded by digital technology.........
(although, as we all know, modern technology is all just too much of a mystery for wee Zep...!!!!!!)
You capture some great moments and atmosphere in your photographs, Eolake, a blog devoted to them would be a nice idea.
Thank you indeed.
ReplyDeleteI was a bit sad to hear that Hasselblad has stopped making their classic film cameras.
On the other hand, I really can't be bothered with film these days, so I guess I should not be surprised.
The days when you needed a lab to view the results of your photography are over. Regarding the complicated chemical process of developing I wonder why photographic recording has at all been possible before the introduction of digital "processing", which in my eyes is a much easier way to reproduce an image. Black and white still remains to be a tool to stir your imagination, while colour flatters your vision. It merely takes the turning of a knob on your camera.
ReplyDeleteI still recall a story from my childhood: my dad used to develop his own rolls of film and prints. He stored the developer in a normal water bottle. One hot day my grandma, not knowing this, took a good swallow and afterwards the hair at the back of her neck rose...
"That's one thing I love about digital - the ability to take three consecutive images of the same subject, one in colour, the next in B&W and a third in sepia."
ReplyDeleteYes, or just shoot the color, and convert it later in software to any of a myriad variations.