Shoot 7-Colour Comparison

Film

Digital

After looking into lots off different artists, I decided to look back at Vivian Maier, and in this shoot I wanted to do a comparison with 120 colour film and digital still using the Richard Long idea of taking pictures on a walk, as it seams the easiest way to get a common theme in my work while focusing on the broad subject of film vs digital. I took this shoot around the harbour. I went with my sister and brother, with the intention of taking pictures of people in this shoot as well as views and objects. I have lined up both contact sheets so the corresponding digital is with the film. In this shoot I shot with a colour 120 film, and due to my limitations of printing and developing colour I had to get them sent off.
The colours on the film look far less real than the digital images, but I prefer the film. The colours make the blues look a lot lighter and cooler than the digital did. No doubt you could get the same effect with photoshop. In some ways the colour shoot looks a lot more like real life than the black and white does.
The other major differences with this shoot is that the angles I shoot from a free different from the digital SLR, due to where the view finder is on the TLR is from the top so you would have had to look down, which suited Maier perfectly when she took candid pictures in the streets as it wasn't obvious she was taking a picture.
Jason was experimenting with fire wool and long exposures and I took it as a way to help him and get a few shots with my film camera to see if it was as easy as it was using digital. Which it was, and came out just as cool as the digital. The only difference is the colour and  you can see the person spinning the wire wool in the middle more clearly which gives it a different look to the digital. It is slightly out shaky due to the longest exposure was 2 seconds so had to hold it on bulb.
I think this shoot went very well. It worked as it looks so different from the black and white shoots I have been doing.


On the left is the film and right is digital.