Are we learning from digital vs analog photography

 What's up, everybody. Welcome to the PW podcast. I'm your host pier. We didn't, but you can find myself in this podcast. At PeterWitham.com. This episode is a photography one. And it's really thinking. As I was over the holiday period about.

With a digital photography has helped us become better photographers.

Now let me dive into that a bit and explain. Back in the film days for those of you that remember, or those of you that are now just discovering it. We had to make a lot of very conscious decisions before pushing the button because we had a limited amount of film. And along with that, we also didn't know. For certain how those results were going to come back. And how it was going to work out until we got the film back from processing, or we processed it ourselves. And we looked at the negatives that we made a print contact sheet. Any of those kinds of things.

Anyone else? Ms. Contact sheets? I know I do. Now what I mean by that is we would then look at them and go, oh, you know what? I messed it up. I need to go back and do it again. Maybe I didn't see something in the corner of the frame and I can't crop it out with the enlarger. Maybe the exposure was for some reason, way off or the shadows had filled in or blown out the highlights or. It was at a focus, any number of things, the composition was bad.

Right. But the point here is we didn't discover those things. Until we sold the negatives or print. We didn't know for certain, right. We looked through a viewfinder. We felt that we'd got it right. And we looked for all the obvious things. And maybe we missed something or we, you know, it was there. We just. Didn't see it. We somehow blocked ourselves some spot in the problem now. In the common age with digital. We can take any number of pitches.

The amount of film is not a problem anymore. Although I have some thoughts about that and how you should treat. It as if it was. Because. I think it makes. Make better decisions. Before pushing the button and. And just being a bam. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Infinitely. Minutely, but anyway, The point is you could take the picture. You would instantly. See the results. On your camera device. Whatever it is at the end of the day, you would instantly see the results for the most part. Of course, there were plenty of very cool cameras. I will say out there. They don't let you do that and force you to think about these things and make these good or bad discoveries later on. But the point is you got immediate gratification from seeing the results. And being able to make the decision was this good?

Do I need to do it again? And taking it from there, which, I think if you take it and treat it that way, Helps you become a better photographer because you are learning in real time on the spot. I Thought it was gonna look like this, but actually it turns out it looks like bat, right? And you can shoot it again.

You can go, oh, you know what? It's out of focus or the compositions bad. There's this thing happened, a bird through flew through the shop, someone sneeze, someone blinked, whatever it may be. You instantly see it and you can take the photo again. So you are learning in real time and making the photographs better and you a better photographer right there. Which is something you couldn't do. With film. Well, I mean, you could, but it was a delayed, okay. You got back, you processed the film. If you want to location, you're going to have to go back, take it again, that kind of thing.

Thank you. See what I'm getting now? And I'm curious if it really has made. People benefit typographers, or if we still go around, taking the photographs. And not learning until we, we get back. Again, you can take, crazy amount of photographs with your cameras and devices these days. Psychologically you're telling yourself, well, if I take a bunch of pictures, I don't have to necessarily look at them in great detail.

I might take a quick glance at the screen. Does it look okay? Yep. And carry on, but are you really taken advantage of the ability to analyze those photographs in real time? And learn and make those decisions right there. I guess that's what I'm getting at for me. I'm trying. I try to spend time. After I've taken a picture, assuming I can. And Looking at it and going, okay, how can I make this better?

Is this what I envisioned divine pre-visualization worked? Did I get lucky in some other way, or is it a complete disaster? And I'm curious what people think about that. You can reach out to me, PeterWitham.com/contact. Let's have some conversations about this. I got to believe that people have opinions on this, right?

Who. Who take their photography seriously. As opposed to just the, bam, bam, bam capture as much as possible, figure it out later crowd. That's it folks I will speak to you in the next episode.