![]() Especially a photographer who doesn’t have the ability to review their photos on the spot and decide if they’re happy with what they’ve captured. The contrast of immersing oneself in a chaotic, quick-paced environment, like a city street, yet being able to capture candid, intimate moments seemed like the ultimate challenge for a photographer. ![]() The photos I am drawn to are stylistically oriented towards street photography. The dimly-lit interior of the vintage store provided an excellent backdrop for the brilliant neon signs. The results are a part of the process and a part of what makes film unique. Film draws me into the moment and helps me appreciate my photographs as they are, regardless of motion blur or accidental overexposure. In my opinion, this process defeats the purpose of shooting film. If a photo doesn’t come out quite right, oh well, I’d just edit it until I found something I liked. In the age of Photoshop and Lightroom I found it too easy to prioritize the editing process over the process of capturing a moment on a camera in the first place. The vintage look of the camera alone felt like reason enough for me to wear it around town.Īs a matter of principle, I do not edit my film photographs. From that moment forward, I knew that film was for me. A day later, I came home with a mint condition Minolta with good light seals and a working, accurate, light meter. I’d heard of the SRT-101, and I reached out. ![]() I found a man on Facebook Marketplace selling a Minolta SRT-101 with a Rokkor-X 50mm f/1.7 for twenty five dollars. After some google research and talking to a few friends that shot film, I had a pretty good sense of what I was looking for. So, after learning the basics of photography, the exposure triangle, composition, etc., I began to look for a cheap film camera. They were almost all shot on analog cameras. I began to notice that the photos I was aesthetically drawn to were not, in fact, shot digitally. It wasn’t until I bought my first DSLR in October, a Nikon D3200, that I was slowly exposed to the reality of film through the internet. At twenty one years old, the only experience I had with film photography was from using disposable Fuji cameras on family trips to the Oregon Coast and Portland. As someone who grew up in the era of the digital camera, I never thought of film photography as anything other than old and inferior.
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