A couple of weeks ago my mother asked me an interesting question. She said, "Why do you use so many different cameras, spending so much money on film and developing, instead of just getting a digital SLR?" I was able to give her several responses quickly, but my favorite reason is highlighted in this shot. It is the unpredictable nature of film processes like using expired film and cross-processing. Using film (especially toy) cameras with these and other processes can give strange, almost supernatural results. I could use Photoshop to make the colors in the trees bleed. I could even paint a skull over the head of the dancing Mayor of Mount Vernon, but to naturally capture these strange images without edits and manipulations is an indescribable rush. Don't get me wrong, I still love to manipulate photos, and plan on purchasing a dSLR in the future, but the results I get from film cameras just keep me coming back. Plus, I haven't even started experimenting with redscale yet :)
Friday, April 11, 2008
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