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@jvkewillivms There’s a version of photography where every shot has to clear five separate reviews before it reaches another person. Film doesn’t solve this. The judgment just moves to the scanner. You see something. You decide whether it’s worth the viewfinder. You look through the viewfinder and sometimes you stop right there. Okay, you take it. Now you check the back of the camera. You import it. You sit with it on a monitor at full resolution and pick it apart. Then it gets to your phone and there’s one more round. Most photos don’t make it. Not because they weren’t good enough. Because they got edited before they were ever shared. Rick Rubin says it best. You can’t make work for the audience and make good work at the same time. That cold spring frame sat in a folder for two months. Film photography in the Sierra Nevada has a way of forcing the decision early. You’re metering off the sky, you’re guessing on the shadows, and by the time you’ve committed, the moment is already past or it isn’t. There’s no chimp on a film back. The judgment happens later, or it doesn’t happen at all. I’ve got a drive with 4,000 frames that never survived the import. At the end of the day this photo thing is just one giant numbers game. #shootfilm #filmisnotdead #mamiya7 #highway395 #landcruiserlifestyle
