Disphotic - "barely illuminated by sunlight from above; the "twilight zone" between the photic and aphotic zones"

This is the film stills account of ~LewisBush

For me as a photographer, film and digital have never been capable of anything but an uneasy truce. I might go out photographing with an archaic 35mm SLR one one arm and a relativley modern DSLR on the other, but I always have the sense that the two are vying for my attention. Like a parent, I probably shouldn’t have a favourite, but I do.

Despite the increasing impracticality and cost of film the experience of watchng a picture appear on a blank piece of paper is something digital photography will never match for me. The craft aspect of actually holding and manipulating a physical media, and the opportunity to really experiment in any way you want are the things I love about film. You really do have a level of control and freedom which digital technology can’t match, unlikely though it might sound the supposedly unlimited potential offered by digital image manipulators can never match the genuinley limitless possibilities of the real world.

Burn holes in your film, pour coffee in the developer, solarise with your mobile phone, forget to fix a print and find a month later that its degraded into something beautiful, try something different just because you can, and because at the end of the day its film and very few people care if you succeed or fail anyway.

Simply put film is genuine, real. Everytime I pick up a negative I feel like I’ve got some sort of link with the subject, light has passed from him or her, passed into my camera and touched the negative I have in my hands. I’m holding it, and by association I’m holding a part of them, not manipulating lines of code that might as well be a complete invention, fabricated by a computer with an eye for the rule of thirds.

Gear:

Canon TLb 35mm Single Lens Reflex
Praktica lb 35mm Single Lens Reflex
Mamiya C330 Medium Format Twin Lens Reflex
Kodak Folding Brownie 620
Ilford HP5 and Delta Proffessional Film