What I like best about shoot at one-oh is the fact I can make a photo with almost no light. I mean not all of life happens in the light of day, right?
Secondly, I can separate my subject yet blend them into their environment.
Not only that but when I shoot 400 ISO and 800 and 1600 and even 3200 I can make photographs when others with less aperture capability aren’t
going to come away with shit. Film OR digital.
No, I’m not afraid of carrying a Leica M body and a well-known lens for fear of someone approaching me to discuss the inherent capabilities of my
equipment.
Most of the time they don’t even see my equipment as it’s well hidden.
I’m sure some of you have come away with the impression that I only feel one should attempt street photography with a rangefinder and more
specifically a Leica M body fitted with Leica glass. Sure. Okay.
Buying Leica gear is not going to make you HCB or Doisneau. No way.
If you are, however, willing to commit yourself and practice the art that is street photography, learning with a rangefinder and watching subjects drift
in and out of one’s framelines is the best way to learn the art.
You can’t do that with a little digi.
You can’t do that with an SLR.
Film or digital.
You may even read this and think I’m a film snob.
Perhaps I am.
Stripping your saturation and pumping up your contrast does not make a black and white photo ...
It makes a photo-manipulation.
If you, in fact, want to print these digital manipulations as sixteen-by-twenty exhibition prints ... watch as your photo falls apart into that which is
digital noise.
Grain is beautiful; noise is ugly.
coco
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