@gdanmitchell My best work is on film. Has always been, and still is. Not just my opinion, but my family and friends, and also here on FM: my most liked images are in the film forum. I have no idea why.
And this statement covers both the light/composition and also the technical aspect, the IQ. Somehow the colors and tonality of my film photographs digitized with the Sony A7RV are better than scenes directly captured with the same camera! I cannot explain this. Somehow the last two decades of digital progress added exactly nothing to the quality of my output. My (unproven) theory is that there's a much, much deeper relationship between effort and result.
If you make X easy, X loses value. That's why photographers don't make good money anymore. They outsoruced most of the effort to stacked high-fps auto-culling ai-trained automation and turned themselves into moist self-propelled tripods. Far less effort. Same results, and HDR is not going to improve anything, just the continuation of a trend that started long ago.
Apr 28, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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