Boats and beaches...

[Shaun Haselden]

Apart from a green-ish filter, this digital image is just about as it came straight from the camera. Trying to recapture my 'old days' before things went a bit 'photoshopped' this is my return to those 'old days'.

My passion back in the 80's and '90s was to use 120 roll at 6X7, Ilford Pan F processed to maximise it's tones and then print on to a warm toned chlorobromide paper such as Agfa record Rapid using a warm developer such as D163. My photographs would then be shown at my local Grimsby Photographic Society and entered into all kinds of exhibitions and competitions. I also was a member of the RPS back then.

Times change so much.

I now use a Nikon D4S as it gives glorious tones akin to film.

The price of progress.

 

[Shaun Haselden]

I feel I need to step back and think more as I used to.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Apart from a green-ish filter, this digital image is just about as it came straight from the camera. Trying to recapture my 'old days' before things went a bit 'photoshopped' this is my return to those 'old days'.

My passion back in the 80's and '90s was to use 120 roll at 6X7, Ilford Pan F processed to maximise it's tones and then print on to a warm toned chlorobromide paper such as Agfa record Rapid using a warm developer such as D163. My photographs would then be shown at my local Grimsby Photographic Society and entered into all kinds of exhibitions and competitions. I also was a member of the RPS back then.

Times change so much.

I now use a Nikon D4S as it gives glorious tones akin to film.

The price of progress.

I really like your usual digital photo editing, but I also appreciate your curiosity in returning to a less heavy-handed editing style and challenging yourself with it. I find this very intriguing, and the result is just as good. For me, the main difference lies less in the change of technique than in a different mood. I find this photo very balanced and calming (in the best possible sense of the word).

 

[Shaun Haselden]

Gianluca, maybe this is all based on nothing more than nostalgia ? I don't really know. I look at my darkroom prints from those decades passed and I love the fact that even taking just one film type it was possible to change it in so many ways by development. Changing the dilution, changing the developer type. Maybe it just doesn't matter anymore ?

 

[Wes Hall]

It will always matter Shaun, nostalgia is our fond yearnings for the past we knowingly or unknowingly loved- and even though digital can approximate film, the older medium is unique and certainly has place today.

 

[Shaun Haselden]

It will always matter Shaun, nostalgia is our fond yearnings for the past we knowingly or unknowingly loved- and even though digital can approximate film, the older medium is unique and certainly has place today.

Wes, I have to agree with your thoughts on the subject. For me this all very much like my remaining interest in vinyl records and turntables. I love them and even though technically speaking the are clearly inferior to the best digital has to offer, they still have a place due to being very different. Film on 120 roll or 5X4 has a quality of depth and tone that I (so far) haven't seen or replicated. For me, digital printing is a good facsimile of a 'real' darkroom print but I doubt it will ever be it's equal.

 

[Wes Hall]

Wes, I have to agree with your thoughts on the subject. For me this all very much like my remaining interest in vinyl records and turntables. I love them and even though technically speaking the are clearly inferior to the best digital has to offer, they still have a place due to being very different. Film on 120 roll or 5X4 has a jquality of depth and tone that I (so far) haven't seen or replicated. For me, digital printing is a good facsimile of a 'real' darkroom print but I doubt it will ever be it's equal.

I find it fascinating how those ‘real’ qualities come back throughout life, giving that joie de vivre which technical specs can’t explain. Photography as a medium certainly juxtaposes this cleanly!

I’ll be continuing to revel in these nostalgic trinkets as I enjoy life’s cornucopia,