Do any zoomers shoot black and white film as a regular thing? It seems like they have no interest or nostalgia for the medium.
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Cringe generational complaining thread.
I guess it’s true, then
How come?
I think they'd rather shoot instant film because instant gratification mindset
But lots of those YouTube photographer channels are zoomers though and they’re on TikTok as well, idgi. I guess it’s like twitch, they’re happier to watch someone else play games/shoot film than doing it themselves
I think it’s a tougher sell on a social feed when the majority of it is in color. Also before you respond screeching about IG ask yourself how brands are built in 2024.
That’s true, muh golden hour portra is a much easier sell on IG.
I tried specializing my feed in B&W film for a year, since I enjoy shooting that anyway, but the only audience I brought in by doing that were my age or older.
Zoomers can't have "nostalgia" for film, their first camera was on their smartphone
literally everyone studying photography in an art school, probably using ilford specifically as well
B/w only looks good in some scenarios. I'd wager the vast majority of people that prefer b/w are just nostalgic for photos of Place, B/W and can't enjoy much if it is instead Place, in color
>I'd wager the vast majority of people that prefer b/w are just nostalgic for photos of Place, B/W
granted, I'm not "most people" but I vastly prefer something like HP5 or XP2 for portraiture or general purpose shooting like snapping my friends or people doing things. B/W is very powerful with a fast prime since you can more aggressively control the subject of a photo. If focus and contrast are high in one place and low in others, it's way easier to prevent a background from being distracting because of stray light or color in BW, but this is coming also from someone who used to do charcoal and pen & ink drawing. If you can't use color as a crutch, the content of a photo needs to stand alone.
just checked the price for tri-x, its fucking 15 dollars for a roll of 36
I just checked a receipt from 2018 when it was 5 a piece
So fuck no, I'll stick to digital until i'm a millionaire or a homeowner, thanks 🙁
as a barely-zoomer i do enjoy B/W, the low ISO stuff is usually still good even expired so i still get decent stuff for around $5-10 per depending on quality, and the dev is still cheaper... in general i use it for fun when traveling, at least some kind of non-digital record exists is justifiable to me i dunno.
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How did you scan this? I really like the way it handled the grain. It's a cool shot, but I think you should dump the exposure and bring out the detail in the sky
i dont really have a scanning setup yet so it's an old film lab Noritsu on medium settings...
and by 'dump the exposure' do you mean lower it or mean 'bump the exposure' like raise it lol
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>i dont really have a scanning setup yet so it's an old film lab Noritsu
well it works great. I really like these shots
>and by 'dump the exposure' do you mean lower it or mean 'bump the exposure' like raise it lol
I mean lower it, making the image darker should bring out the texture in the clouds
glad someone enjoys my zoomershits lol
alright tried this one with -25% underexposed, interesting texture for sure
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yeah that's it, I think that looks cool. A kind of eastern european creepy vibe.
thx, and that's my favorite place to travel... largely friendly people with so much history, even if a bit 'creepy' sometimes at least it's real lol
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hey anon, you do realise that you're supposed to edit the raw files whatever scanner you're using is spitting out, right? It's already a grayscale* abstracted rendition of reality, you can edit and tweak it as much as you want to achieve something objectively decent looking. if you're gonna say "but I like the scanner result", jump headfirst off a tall building instead of posting.
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>how many stops you want this pushed my dude
>"yes"
I'm just barely a zoomer, depending on which online bullshit cutoff you choose to believe.
The thing we gotta do, the thing that will get more people shooting b&w, is get more kids in the darkroom. Nobody prints anymore. You gotta print to finish the process of taking a photo, you gotta print because it's magic, you gotta print because you gotta print. Shoot b&w, get in the darkroom, make fucking prints.
Some do, but B&W simply doesn't sell (either in likes or money) as much. It's basically the jazz of photography. An experienced photographer appreciates good tonality in a B&W print, the average viewer think it's old or melancholic. It'll probably never become popular again, but more photographers may appreciate it if they learned how to do it properly by getting tips from boomer vets and making prints.
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How do you expect zoomers to afford to shoot film when most are still in school you knuckle dragging retard
my gf said that everything is worse in black and white
Not a zoomer but why the fuck would you not shoot in color? To me all b&w photographers are bland, uninspired misanthropes, that fall back on the format as a crutch to excuse their short comings as an individual. Quick polling, how many of you shoot b&w and have a stable family/social life?
Here where I am the only reason is once you factor in development costs (either lab or diy), colour is like 4 dollars more expensive per roll, and so being cheap I just don’t shoot color. If I really need colour I have an eos R and a full set of nice lenses which I can use, or my griii, or old 1d if I want to retro larp, etc. I just like developing film so black and white is good enough. It’s the process more than the product, basically.
Color chemistry expires faster and requires a hot water bath, it's a pain in the dick compared to being able to just slap a roll of film on a developing reel and pour in room temperature solutions. If you're truly lazy you can even grab the rodinal and stand develop.
>To me all b&w photographers are bland, uninspired misanthropes
hell yeah
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Zoomer who shoots black and white here.
I prefer color and I feel like I usually don’t get the benefits of black and white unless I’m shooting medium format. I love developing black and white for free at school but when I’m not at college it’s not worth the extra wait time at a lab compared to color. Yes I should’ve gotten a home dev kit by now.
Also I hate trying to make digital monochrome it just feels wrong.
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Shot XP2 recently and I am a fan though.
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Why c41 if shooting bw? Purely so Walmart/etc can still develop it or some other reason?
nta, but my lab's c-41 price is like half of the b&w price, so if you didn't want to/couldn't do it yourself it would save you money provided you could get it for the same price
I would never get film developed at Walmart, it costs more than a lab and takes a month and they destroy your negatives for a 1mp or something scan.
I keep my negatives because I’m in college so I can print if I want to. When I’m not in school I don’t have free B&W developing. XP2 has incredible dynamic range though so I might shoot it again
And yes most labs it’s more expensive and slower to pay for B&W developing.
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Where I live its $8 for C41 with a 3 day turnaround time or $15 for BW with a 14 day turnaround time
if its going from film straight to a pc, im not sure i see the purpose.
bonafide zoomer here (2004) and ive been shooting film for a few years now. ive shot 3 rolls of b/w and like 15 of colour. i have 3 rolls of trix that im going to shoot over the rest of the summer though. i mostly shoot colour because of my belief that with colour, you can always just desaturate in gimp, but with b/w you can't really easily colour it.
that being said, does anyone have example pics with an orange contrast filter? i'm trying so hard not to gearfag but all of my b/w in the past has come out pretty thin so i feel like a contrast filter will suddenly make me ansel adams
zoomers heard BW dev prices are skyhigh but dont know about the C-41 BW so they just still with "filtered" color film like cinestill
sad i like BW a lot
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B&W is great, it obviously should be used for different things than color
With B&W you can focus on forms, textures and light only, and these look great on black and white.
You can shot it simply when there just isn't enough color: decrepit or modernist architecture, desolate landscapes - B&W will emphasize it.
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for me BW works when the color version would not have shown much more.
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