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That’s a really interesting perspective Gerry! Thanks a million for the comment.
You’re preaching to the converted – I wholeheartedly agree with you on this. I ‘grew up’ using film SLRs, so looking through the eyepiece was the only viewing I got to do. The beauty of that was that I had to trust that I had at least one or two good shots, and focused on technique a lot.
Perfecting technique, and being confident in one’s abilities, allows you to then focus on the the most important aspect, the subject! I started out a wedding photographer and ended up a photojournalist, and as you quite rightly point out, interaction with your subject is vital to producing a good, lively shot.
I worked at a weekly newspaper and was issued ONE roll of 36 ASA100 (if I was lucky, a roll of ASA200). With that one roll, I had to produce all the photos for the paper for that week – front page, social, sports. That forced me to become VERY selective with my shots, and to focus on composition and lighting.
Digital cameras made photography a lot easier, for amateurs and people that had never studied photography. But they also make it more difficult. I don’t believe digital will ever match the quality, depth, shading, and richness of colour, of film. DSLRs also enable people to take a number of frames of the same subject, hoping that they produce at least ONE good print, which then requires time-consuming sifting through a heap of photos that all look very similar. Even though I shoot using a DSLR, I rarely take more than two frames of the same subject, and always use the viewfinder with the viewing screen switched off.
The stock response I get from some of my subjects: “Don’t you need to take more than just two photos?”
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