Digital Photography Vs. Film When Learning To Take Pictures And Black And White Film vs. Monochrome Filters? Thoughts?

June 5, 2016 § 4 Comments

Questions I think about often these days. Does learning to take a picture with a digital camera hinder the learning process or benefit it? Do you get the same effect with a monochrome filter as you do shooting with black and white film? Now that I watch my son starting to show an interest in photography I think back to the time when I also became interested. My dad giving me his old Yashica 2 1/4 and telling me this is the camera I need to learn on.  I remember the rolls of film for it had less than 10 pictures. I wonder if the photos I took were just lucky shots or knowing that I only had 10 to take I took more time framing that one picture. Anytime he allowed us to use his polaroid he made a point of telling us that it was a dollar a photo so Do Not Waste Them! My husband and I are blown away with what my son is doing and how he’s so quickly figured out how to create mats and digital effects that we still haven’t mastered. And he does seem to be looking for interesting things to photograph but I can’t help but wonder when you know you have no limit to how many photos you can take does that change the photos you do take? Below are some old photos I found that I took in high school. Photographers weigh in? What are your thoughts?

My sister.
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Fairgrounds after hours. Horses
 Park Street, St. Petersburg, Florida. ParkStreetHome
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I took this one with my dad’s Yashica 2 1/4.  Lucky shot?
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Another Beautiful Illustration By Pin Up Artist Alberto Vargas.

May 31, 2016 § Leave a comment

French Inspired circa 1931

French Inspired circa 1931

Source: Vargas, Alberto Vargas and Reid Austin Bell Publishing Company.

Mina Loy|1882 -1966.

May 25, 2016 § Leave a comment

Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy, 1927.

Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, 1927.

Colored pencil sketch of women’s fashions, Mina Loy.

Michael Sporn Animator.

May 24, 2016 § 1 Comment

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Michael Sporn ~Wikipedia

Follow Me On Instagram.

May 23, 2016 § 2 Comments

I’m a little late to the party, but finally started using my Instagram account. Please follow me by clicking the instagram logo below.InstagramLogo-730x278

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SX-70 (POLAROID)

In 1972 the Polaroid Corporation commissioned the Eames Office to produce a film introducing the new and revolutionary SX-70 instant-photography camera developed by Edwin Land.

The Sixties Look.

May 21, 2016 § Leave a comment

Still relevant.The Sixtie's Look005

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Source: IN VOGUE, 75 YEARS OF STYLE, Georgina Howell Condé Nast Books

 

Paris Fashion Parade, 1974 | Martine Franck.

May 20, 2016 § 2 Comments

FRANCE. Paris. Fashion parade organized by Jean Louis SCHERRER. 1974.

Paris, France,  Fashion parade 1974.

 

Beautiful Audrey.

May 19, 2016 § 2 Comments

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Audrey Hepburn by Dennis Stock, during the filming of Sabrina, 1954.

Diahann Carroll, March 14, 1955.

May 15, 2016 § Leave a comment

Diahann Carroll Photographed by Carl Van Vechten 1955.

Courtesy of the Yale Beinecke Library

Courtesy of the Yale Beinecke Library

The Harlem  Renaissance

The Bowler Hat.

May 9, 2016 § 2 Comments

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The bowler hat, also known as a bob hat, derby (US), or bombín, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for the British soldier and politician Edward Coke, the younger brother of the2nd Earl of Leicester. The bowler hat was popular with the working class during the Victorian era, and later on with the middle and upper classes in the United Kingdom and the eastern United States. Later in the United Kingdom, it would come to be worn as civilian work dress by former officers of the Queen’s Guard. In Bolivia, women of Quechua people have worn bowler hats since the 1920s when British railway workers introduced them there. ~Wikipedia

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Olive Thomas, Silent Film Star.

Olive Thomas died of acute nephritis in Paris on September 10, 1920, five days after consuming mercury bichloride. Her death was heavily publicized and became one of the first Hollywood scandals.

Olive Thomas: The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty

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Charles Chaplin

History of The Bowler Hat, The Telegraph, 10/06/10

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