no.i gave up on all that 'being true to the materials nonsense' it's results that count in the end, processes are all well and lovely and it's handy if you know how to do things old school, but ultimately who gives a shit, i'd much rather do something in 5 mins that traditionally took hours.
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god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback,
Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:04,
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I did enjoy working with proper B&W low grain film at college and processing it myself,you could get really creepy looks to things, all grainy and spooky, was hard to imitate any other way.
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Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:19,
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horses for coursesi'm a great believer in using whichever technique
is best suited to getting the desired result.old school can be a lot more fun to do but unless you're a performance artist where the doing is the 'art' does how you got to the result matter.
(is best suited to getting the desired result.old school can be a lot more fun to do but unless you're a performance artist where the doing is the 'art' does how you got to the result matter.
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Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:49,
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