12-04-2009, 05:28 PM
As he said "B&W film is dead".
Nah. With respect to Jeff Schewe, whose work is excellent, B&W film may be dead for him but those blanket pronouncements alway make me roll my eyes. I've just started getting back into film: Kodachrome before it's too late and Ilford FP4 & HP5. I guess I'm ending up with a sort of hybrid, as I'm converting the negs to digital and processing them in Lightroom. So to that extent we're on the same page. These scans do look noticeably different than a digital conversion, and I enjoy the look.
This one is a conversion of a digital photo:
Nah. With respect to Jeff Schewe, whose work is excellent, B&W film may be dead for him but those blanket pronouncements alway make me roll my eyes. I've just started getting back into film: Kodachrome before it's too late and Ilford FP4 & HP5. I guess I'm ending up with a sort of hybrid, as I'm converting the negs to digital and processing them in Lightroom. So to that extent we're on the same page. These scans do look noticeably different than a digital conversion, and I enjoy the look.
This one is a conversion of a digital photo: