Epic Edits Weblog

Links this week include articles on filters, manual focus, hdr camera setups, beginner dSLR tips, real estate phtography, and a camera trade.

OK, so my recent article on the “10 Things I Hate About Film” went over with mixed emotions. Let me just get this cleared up: IT WAS A SARCASTIC SATIRE/PARODY actually aimed at the shortcomings of digital photography. Some readers saw this immediately, and even added to the humor with their comments. Other readers took the article seriously and proceeded to attack me as a photographer and a writer. So if you didn’t “get it” in the last article, here it is in plain and serious English.

Film is a four-letter-word. It’s a hideous part of our photographic past, and we’ll be better off once it’s been eliminated from society. I’m ashamed to admit that I tried film once, but I quickly learned just how disgusting it really is and I’ve been clean ever since that occasion. Just take my word for it — FILM IS BAD (mmmkay). Here are ten things I hate about film.

48 selected photos from the Epic Edits PhotoDump Flickr pool. This week there are 12 new members, 1 new discussion, and 243 new photos in the group.

Links this week include film developing, issues with the Flickr API, how to comment on photos, an intro to digital, stolen photos, through the viewfinder, color enhancements, filters, and travel photography.

Feet are interesting photographic subjects that often get overlooked because of their proximity to the ground. Feet can be very expressive of the person they belong to — sometimes even more so than a portrait. Here are 20 feet photos from the Epic Edits Flickr Pool.

Cross processed film photo of a sunset at Huntington Beach with some unexpected results.

The seventh episode of the PhotoNetCast is ready to go! In this one, we discuss photo editing. Some people hate it (i.e. Photoshop), and some love it. But whatever your position on the topic, everybody seems to have an opinion about it — and the four of us are no exception.
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photo credit: Thomas Hawk
So this should be quite an interesting show to watch… Getty tapping into Flickr. Thomas Hawk wrote up some very in-depth discussions about this new development on his blog (link below) and on the Flickr image above.
I’m really curious to see what comes of this partnership, but I can’t say [...]

Sure, digital photography is king right now… but is film photography really a thing of the past? Will film have nothing but a cult following, or is it actually back on the rise?