So.
As you may know from reading the handy bio to your right, I am a photographer. However, my camera started to malfunction a few weeks ago and it will be in the shop until I can come up with the $200+ to get it repaired. That’s neither here nor there, though. You see, when my digital camera went on the fritz, I returned to my old love, my first love, the camera that started it all: my Pentax K1000. Actually, this is my father’s camera, which I have, ahem, permanently borrowed. It is the camera he used to teach me how to take photographs and for that, it is priceless to me.
I won’t lie. I miss my Canon Rebel but returning to shooting on film has actually been rather gratifying. It has reminded me to slow down, to take my time with composition, to make sure I’m waiting for the right moment, the right light, the right framing. This might come off a bit ironic considering how I was just praising the joys of iPhone photos, but contradictions are what make life great, right?
I definitely don’t think one form is better than the other. Both film and digital photography have their purposes. Both have their pros and their cons. But shooting on film, on a camera that isn’t so temperamental, has been quite a joy.
Also, check out www.film-grain.tumblr.com, a great blog that exclusively features photography shot on both color and black and white film.
(Photos by Danielle Scruggs)
Danielle Scruggs is a photographer and writer currently living and working in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Md. Her work has been exhibited in Baltimore and Brooklyn and published by The Washington Post, Stop Smiling magazine, FILE magazine, and F-Stop Magazine. Scruggs holds an M.A. in Digital Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a B.A. in Journalism from Howard University. She is still very much in love with Charm City, albeit from a distance.
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