Reblogged from lotusmodern
Lomography.com has brought back the original emulsion of Agfa RSX 200 slide film
Ikuru Kuwajima, a photojournalist based in Ukraine who has been named the winner of the Fujifilm Distinctions Awards 2009.
My personal favorites; Langjiazi - I was far away be beautiful, Pat Moss - Untitled and Toby Smith - Drax from his recent work Light After Dark. Smith has visited every Power Station in England, shooting at night using long exposures.
Why do you shoot film ?
Photographer Robert Benson has posted on his blog a Q&A with some professional photographers, he asked why they shoot film, what’s so special about it, and how it changes the way they work in comparison to digital workflow.
Here one of my favorite quotes from the holdouts ;
David Lauridsen: Film is beautiful. It has a depth to it and a painterly quality in the way it captures light and texture that digital just isn’t capable of capturing… yet. I shoot a lot of travel photography and like strong side light and backlight, which I think is the biggest weakness of digital. With film, I can expose for good shadow detail and just burn in the sky. With digital, the sky is just gone completely or if I expose for it then I end up with an image that is just much darker than I like. It’s recoverable to some degree in post, but it still doesn’t have that “lushness” that film has.
