picker77
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retnull
Well-known
Grain calls attention to the artifice of the image. Grain is honest -- it is the photograph's way of admitting it is a photograph, and not reality.
Being reminded of the image's separation from reality highlights the ways it is still connected to reality. A noise-free color digital image cannot do this: its "realness" goes unquestioned and unnoticed.
Being reminded of the image's separation from reality highlights the ways it is still connected to reality. A noise-free color digital image cannot do this: its "realness" goes unquestioned and unnoticed.
ChrisP
Grain Lover
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I've found both digital and film cameras that I can connect to enough to forget that I'm using them which allows me to focus purely on what I'm capturing so I shoot film when I want grain and digital when I don't.
When I want grain I really want, no half as$ing it.
Holic-Film-693 by Albino_BlacMan, on Flickr
and when I don't I want none
Holic-Toned-LC-090102 by Albino_BlacMan, on Flickr
Prominent
Prominent.
I've found both digital and film cameras that I can connect to enough to forget that I'm using them which allows me to focus purely on what I'm capturing so I shoot film when I want grain and digital when I don't.
When I want grain I really want, no half as$ing it.
Holic-Film-693 by Albino_BlacMan, on Flickr
and when I don't I want none
Holic-Toned-LC-090102 by Albino_BlacMan, on Flickr
djcphoto
An Englishman Abroad
I love grain, even when it's fairly subtle. Like some others have commented, it's what keeps me shooting film!
semrich
Well-known
I like grain, because that's what I get shooting film, using a different lens, different films, pushing several stops or not, different light, incident metering, different developers, and never sure of the result.
I like the surprise I get when I develop the film and what the grain looks like. I make no value judgement about it, it's just what it is. I like the simplicity of accepting it as it is without the need for filters, post processing, and the need to decide on what "look" I want.
I'm learning to print in the darkroom now, my "look" will be each print the result of its unique individual process from, what that negative gives me, at the current level of my skills at printing.
I like the surprise I get when I develop the film and what the grain looks like. I make no value judgement about it, it's just what it is. I like the simplicity of accepting it as it is without the need for filters, post processing, and the need to decide on what "look" I want.
I'm learning to print in the darkroom now, my "look" will be each print the result of its unique individual process from, what that negative gives me, at the current level of my skills at printing.