Film colors are beautiful. This was shot a little east of Canberra, the capital of Australia. I love the dry rolling hills. It was taken with Fuji Superior 200 on 135 format. It was scanned on the Pakon.
Many photographers, both amateur and professional want their digital shots to look like they have been shot with film. Film colors are better, I say, unless lots of work is put in to fake it. The popularity of VSCO and other film emulation programs, plug-ins and presets attests to the way people want the ease of digital, but the film colors. C-41 is the process of most color films today, and this particular process is know to be less true to life and less repeatable than ‘slide film’ or E-6. Who cares about repeatability though? In the age of Instagram people are seeming to love tinted looking images rather than true to life images. Often people want something to feel a certain way than to document something as it was. A photo isn’t put online until it has various grades and filters added. Many photographers are sick of all the fiddling around. If film is used in the first place, it has the look without needing to be faked.
The main reason why I choose to still shoot digital so much is the ‘moment’. Shooting digital means you can really mash the shutter to capture the moment without a worry. I suppose there is a worry though, sorting the images later! I am quite trigger happy, and there is always loads of shots. For natural, candid moments I think digital for me is still king. To get film colour is possible, just time consuming. Digital no doubt takes more time when you think about it.
Apologies for if I drift between the Australia and US ways of spelling color/colour on this blog.