tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055198755190312588.post834430032563970448..comments2023-06-12T06:24:20.322-07:00Comments on F/8 and Beware: Photography in the NewsPhoto Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14251946913032036788noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055198755190312588.post-34257454833144235092007-01-09T13:34:00.000-08:002007-01-09T13:34:00.000-08:00dd-b:
I agree that most pro photographers have gon...dd-b:<br />I agree that most pro photographers have gone digital for at least some of their work and many for all of their work. I haven't shot much film since I got my digital camera, except for the work I did in connection with the classes I was teaching. My big concern is the expense. For a couple of hundred dollars, I can get a kid in the darkroom and he or she will be able to work with different focal lengths, aperatures, film and shutter speeds, paper grades, filtration, the inverse square law, and understand all that it means. To do it in digital requires an investment of several thousand dollars in cameras, lenses,computers, software, and printers. I teach at a community college which is not going out and buying cameras the kids can use and is expecting them to have access to computers and printers of their own. We had a darkroom and the lab fee was $15 a semester. It's a cost thing, plus there's that very tactile thing of processing film and making a print. Many of the potential students I've talked to really want that experience and they can't get it at my school anymore.Photo Lawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14251946913032036788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055198755190312588.post-22238895641997074342007-01-04T12:12:00.000-08:002007-01-04T12:12:00.000-08:00I can easily see that abandoning the darkroom so q...I can easily see that abandoning the darkroom so quickly is, at best, an aggressive strategy in educational institutions. And I can see how it will disrupt the established curriculum. <br /><br />On the other hand, I can't find professionals still using 35mm film except for those near the end of their careers who don't want to move. Anybody new coming out has to know how to work with digital. <br /><br />And it seems *to me* (not a photography teacher) that digital has really tremendous advantages for teaching -- mostly based around the shorter feedback cycle. <br /><br />I don't particularly propose to try to re-argue the whole thing here, beyond this; but would you mind mentioning the specific things you find easier to teach in a darkroom? I'd like to know that, and it's probably short.dd-bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05345441048436406370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055198755190312588.post-3403391294749931772007-01-01T13:13:00.000-08:002007-01-01T13:13:00.000-08:00Yeah, Photoshop is not the same thing as having a ...Yeah, Photoshop is not the same thing as having a dark room.kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520314187037621115noreply@blogger.com