Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Film (hard F) is Not (hard N) Dead.



A girl .. a woman of half my age, told me the other day that "Film is Dead". Just like that. Hard F. Hard D.

So I bought a role of film. I developed it. Scanned it. Uploaded it to an imaging tool. Post processed it. Downloaded it back to my computer. And here it is.

The process was not nearly as instantaneously satisfying as digital, but just to smell the developer and to feel my skin break out in itchy red bumps as a subtle reaction to the photo chemicals makes it totally worth it.

Film (hard F) is Not (hard N) Dead.

2 comments:

esther (chinny chin chin) said...

i saw this a few weeks ago and the images have lingered on in my mind. i thought you might like them....
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html
i miss you.

sarah said...

Thank you Esther! Those photos are incredible- what a complete mind trip to see the vibrant color!I miss you too- I hope that you guys are doing really great. I just told Laura that I need a fc fix. Hopefully sooner than later.
xxoo