Exploring Analog Photography
Analog Photography consists of 2 different stages; first, you need to take a picture using the analog camera and then pass it to a technician to perform the second stages (Schmidt et al., 2014). I still remember when I was a kid I used to play with my dad camera and I accidentally pull out the film in the cartridge.My dad was very angry and I get scold by him. I still remember when I was at the age of 12, my cousin teach me how to operate a DSLR. Since then I am very interested in photography; I got my first camera in my 16 years old and I love to use it to capture down the memory I have in my high school. However, I realize that DSLR can capture a very clear and good quality of picture but it is lack of some feeling that analog camera can achieve.
“For over 150 years, photography has been a chemical process. Images are captured on photographic film. This is made up of layers of light-sensitive silver halide emulsion coated on a flexible base. Film is exposed to light in a camera. This creates a latent image, which is made visible by immersion in a solution of chemicals called a ‘developer’. Prints are made by projecting the image from the film on sensitised paper and processing the material in a series of chemical baths. Much of the processing of both film and paper must take place in darkened rooms to avoid extraneous light reaching the sensitised emulsions (Canon Professional Network, n.d.).”
It is not easily to operate an analog camera; it required the person to have not just a good sense of structuring the picture but it also required experience in a using analog camera it. I still remember my dad told me that people who use analog camera are good in getting the right exposure because analog camera does not have any not playback button. Everything is done within one snap and there is no second chance to retake the picture so it is very dependent on the photographer getting the right exposure.
“A good photograph of a daisy will impel you to start looking at a real daisy more pointedly and from that looking at all things more pointedly (Tostões and Maria Braga, 2013).”
I agree with Tostoes and Maria opinion on what is a good photograph. A good photograph not just capture the picture but it also captures the story about it. Every time I look back to my dad picture, I realize how much my dad had changed. Analog photography can give a vintage and old feeling and it could not be replaced or achieved by DSLR.
This is few picture of my dad during 70s and 80s when analog photography is at its golden age.
References
Canon Professional Network. (n.d.). Differences between analogue and digital – Canon Professional Network. [online] Available at: http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/education/infobank/introduction_to_digital_photography/differences_between_analogue_and_digital.do [Accessed 26 Mar. 2017].
Schmidt, A., Pfleging, B., Holz, C. and Holmquist, L. (2014). From Photography to Ubiquitous Capture Systems. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 13(1), pp.10-13.
Tostões, A. and Maria Braga, A. (2013). Preserving Collective Memory through Photography. Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, 10(2), p.83.