You Can't Get Away from Digital

Barn boards and blackberry vines on a Rock City Barn in northeast Louisiana.

 

Two photographic media are in general use: film and digital imaging. 

If you shoot film and want people to see your work you can make prints or project slides (or look at them on a light box or light table.) You can hang prints on the walls of your home, sell prints so other people can hang them on their walls, or, if you're either very good or very lucky, (or just happen to know somebody) you can have a show of your prints at an art gallery. These are basically the limits for even the most diehard film addict who wants nothing to do with digital.

Can you post your film photographs online? No, they will first have to be scanned. That makes them digital images. Can you publish them in a magazine or a book? No, not until they're scanned.

Your digital photographs can go directly from camera to computer to the world-wide web with no intermediate steps. Because they're digital images. In fact, if you're using a cell phone you can skip the computer step. If you want to post your film images on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, or your blog or web site, they will first have to be digitized. No way around it.

You just can't get away from digital imaging. Like it or not.

Since I want my photographs to be seen by as many people as possible, I use a device called a scanner, two of them, in fact, to digitize my film images. More about that later.

(The blackberry vines growing through the boards of Rock City Barn LA-2 in northeast Louisiana were photographed with a Canon EOS A2 film camera and a Canon EF lens on Fujichrome 100 film. The slide was scanned with a Minolta-Dimage 5400 scanner.)

If you like my photographs, you can see more of them in my online gallery at https://davejenkins.pixels.com/  Looking is free, and, who knows? You might find something you want to keep.

The second edition of my book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia will be released in June, 2023. 

Photograph and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

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Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.