MMS 173: Photography in Multimedia
I'm a film photographer. I was trained to shoot film and to create images with it. I have to wait to exposed 12, 24, or 36 shots of frame, processed the negatives and make a contact prints out of it before I can see what I aimed for.
With today's technology, with the emergence of digital technology, where images can be represented by 1's and 0's, film photography seems to be fading in obsolescence. But film technology, where photography started it all, will not just shoot in silence, it will continue to make images from light and shadows where patience is a virtue.
Digital photography, comes like a lightning, where you were struck by its effect before you've seen it and brings more than 220 volts and more, and knocks out your consciousness and brings you 1000 years to the future(okay make it ten).
Imagine:
You can shoot a product shot out of two 40 watts bulb and have digital setting more than f/8 on your aperture?
Florescent lamp will not give you a light reading of f/1.4 or f/8 if you are using a 100 ASA film or even a 1000 ASA. The equivalent reading of your built-in meter on your analog camera will be f/1.4 in 5 seconds or more (sec) - with a color temperature of green. That will be your picture, if captured and properly set to correct exposure. It will give a f/1.4 exposure in 5 seconds or more.
In order to give a f/1.4 exposure reading with 100 ASA(or ISO) film, you need an 800 watts of tungsten artificial light with a distance of 1 meter from your subject or model.
A tungsten light bulb will give a color temperature orange or close to red if you're using a daylight film.
With just a press of settings on your digital camera, it can correct the color temperature of your image, that is the correct color rendition of what you are shooting for.
Digital camera compared to analog camera?
I have to buy a new one, in digital settings where images can be captured in 1's and 0's.
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