August 13, 2012

Two weeks ago in blog #19, I had a story about myself and the band Queen with some color photographs that I took on March 7, 1975.  The response was wonderful from all of you and I appreciate the comments as always.  It made me dig into the archives a little further to find the black and white images from that show for you to enjoy.

We are spoiled in the digital world as a photographer in that we can switch from color to black and white very easily.  In 1975 you had to switch rolls of film!!!!!!!!!!  In digital, we can also change the ISO or film speed quickly and from photo to photo.  Wow, would that have been nice in 1975 because we were all using push processing on our film to get a faster ISO or as we called it back then, ASA.  I had to do special things in the darkroom in the old days and it was fun but you did not know what you were going to get right away like we do now.  It took a while to see what you photographed in the old days.

I miss the smell of fixer and stop bath in the darkroom and it was like being a magician sometimes.  The darkroom was a fun place to play and work with film, paper and chemicals.  Black and white versus color is like digital versus film.  They both work but are very different and people still argue over film being better and color being better than black and white.

What do you think and which do you like better, film versus digital or color over black and white?  It is a very personal choice I think and it will be interesting to see what you think.

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