Kolkata, 2008

[withoutart]

I finally went and got three rolls of film developed so now I'm going to successively impose the photos on you, starting from when we went to Kolkata for CIP two years ago! Although, I took very few pictures of Hope Home and the kids there, and more of the city in general.

Comments

[hackney_ed]

You take beautiful photographs. (Also, this is why we should use film) The kids look so happy!

[withoutart]

Thank you. :) I still can't execute shots the exact way I want to though. But film definitely is much warmer and… human.

[seventeentruths]

Wow, you make an excellent photographer.

ALSO I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN AGES WENCH AND YOU'RE ONE OF THE PEOPLE I WANNA HANG WITH

[withoutart]

I KNOW I FEEL VERY GUILTY when I think of you because I haven't talked to you in so long! I don't know if I can get out of the books anytime soon though because of midterms and assignments. Once I have been productive enough to feel like I can go out you will be the first to know!!

[willywongka]

im jealous, as usual hahaha

but i still cant seem to figure out what it is about film images that is so different from digital photography leh :(

[cheronl]

It's mostly the saturation + grain I feel...

[withoutart]

Hm similar to Cheronne, I would put it down to "texture". Digital photographs tend to be very stark and clean, which is definitely desirable in some cases, but it can be quite sterile. Most of the time I prefer the way film blends and contrasts different layers in a scene, and how it captures light. And I don't know whether I'm just imagining it but the fact that film photographs have a real, physical rather than digital existence seems to give them more gravitas.

But then the converse is true for me - people say digital photography has its own magic yet I don't seem to get much out of it besides convenience and room for error!

[tripartiteteddy]

I know nothing about photography, but I think due to the fact that the photograph is a real object (not that digital photographs aren't real, or aren't objects... but one could go on about this), the reality and physicality of the image is also enhanced thereby... with non-digital photographs, I tend to imagine the photographer as well as the subject, and this is not really the case with digital photographs. depends on what you're going for, I suppose...

[emjay181]

davina you should take more photos... and post them!!

[withoutart]

Haha I am intending to!! :p