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Anonymous Tue 04 Jul 2023 15:57:16 No.4198901 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4199653 >>4201034 >>4201053

why is that black & white film has more soul?
is this just an interpretation of nostalgia in our minds or is it more than that (in the note of the subject I have my 9 grandchildren (ages starting from 4 to 15) when they stayed at my place I made them look at pictures of their ancestors (black and white) then I showed them color pictures from 99-05) everyone seemed more interested in the black and white ones than the color ones

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Anonymous Tue 04 Jul 2023 16:03:13 No.4198904 Report

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black and white means old means interesting
black and white calls color to the imagination
black and white calls for appreciation

black and white has symmetry with myths and legends
color is just a facebook post

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Anonymous Wed 05 Jul 2023 05:42:06 No.4199135 Report

Quoted By: >>4199137

I miss him

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Anonymous Wed 05 Jul 2023 05:48:44 No.4199137 Report

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>>4199135
>him
hitler's dog was a girl

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Anonymous Wed 05 Jul 2023 06:07:42 No.4199140 Report

Quoted By: >>4199146

Black and white is harder to fuckup so on average has more soul. A good colour film photo has tons of soul too.

Digital however, not so much…

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Anonymous Wed 05 Jul 2023 06:21:56 No.4199146 Report

Quoted By: >>4199153 >>4199154 >>4201038 >>4208471

>>4199140
Digital can look exactly like film

You get as much detail as a typical 6x9 color negative out of a nikon Z7 II and several stops more dynamic range. If you can't get "soul" out of modern cameras you're a total retard. Furthermore, older digital cameras now have "soul" because "soul" is just the evolution of "music was better then, i was born in the wrong generation" and everything that happened at least 10 years ago is automatically good.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Jul 2023 07:14:04 No.4199153 Report

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>>4199146

Imagine falling for marketing this badly…

Digital still looks very clearly different to film. Go browse any film group on Flickr vs any digital group. Some abstract number like dynamic range doesn’t remotely capture the look of film.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Jul 2023 07:15:23 No.4199154 Report

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>>4199146
>you're a total retard
Absolutely unaware. Lmao

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Anonymous Thu 06 Jul 2023 11:50:55 No.4199653 Report

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>>4198901
you sound underage

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Anonymous Sun 09 Jul 2023 08:57:09 No.4201028 Report

Quoted By: >>4201316

BLACK AND WHITE LETS YOU FOCUS ON SHAPE AND FORM AND LIGHT. COLOR IS AN ADDED LAYER OF COMPLEXITY THAT IS SO DIFFICULT TO TAME THAT MANY PEOPLE SHOOTING COLOR WON'T EVEN BOTHER TRYING. THAT'S ALL.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Jul 2023 09:07:48 No.4201034 Report

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>>4198901
you are definitely not alone on this. i am not old enough to have grown up when black & white film was around but i already know it has more soul than 99% of things being made today. why? because it required more effort. it was also an art form which was new, and so film makers were creating stories without imitating other films (because there were no other films to copy from) which means all of it came from their own creative vision of a movie.
also, the more restricted a movie is, (such as having no sound) the more soulful it is (if you have one to recognize it as such) the less color it has, the less clarity even, the more human it all seems. directors these days have such an ugly obsession with making their slop with the most hd 4k camera, most clear microphones. that doesnt make a good movie. thats the last thing you need to prioritize. so to answer your question, they have more soul because they were made in such a hands-on honest way, the methodology would naturally result in such pictures.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Jul 2023 09:16:34 No.4201038 Report

Quoted By: >>4201110

>>4199146
you quote soul like it's some sort of myth. soul is real, you just need one to distinguish it from the things that lack it.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Jul 2023 09:55:05 No.4201053 Report

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>>4198901
colour is a distraction, a needless complication. so few are improved with the addition of it.
black and white gets you closer to intent, the essence of the photo.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Jul 2023 14:53:59 No.4201110 Report

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>>4201038
Soul is the word computer nerds use to describe things that briefly remind them of the real life they wish they had or their childhood.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Jul 2023 23:47:43 No.4201305 Report

Quoted By: >>4205217

i know this guy who's in his 30's now, used to edit his raws by setting saturation back to 0 to get BW photos.
i tried to explain him that he need to convert it to 16bit for a propper bw image
but he always came up saying exactly this
>this is my style, this is how i do it not like everyone else
one time i asked him to send me the raw+xmp so i can look over one of his photographs..
contrast at 55%
i shit you not but clarity was at 60%
shadows minus 40% and so on...all this on a closeup portrait of a redheaded girl.
apart from that he's the lousiest and laziest photographer i've ever seen...
just met him recently, his beerbelly looks disturbingly unnatural and is huge
asked him what he's up to...
told me that he now found a totally different "style" and motivation.
what is it ?
photo collages he say..
grabs his phone shows me AI generated surreal images.
this guy never ever in his life heard of layers, doesn't know how to ctrl + z but now fills his instagram with AI one click "art"
i said cool and went along..2 minutes later i blocked his ass because i don't tolerate such hypocrisy

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Anonymous Mon 10 Jul 2023 00:14:37 No.4201316 Report

Quoted By: >>4201779

>>4201028

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Anonymous Mon 10 Jul 2023 17:23:21 No.4201779 Report

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>>4201316
I WAS THAT WAS MY DAD

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Anonymous Wed 19 Jul 2023 05:52:44 No.4205217 Report

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>>4201305
Idk but this made me laugh. Post his instagram.

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Anonymous Mon 24 Jul 2023 04:11:53 No.4207745 Report

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You should have seen it in color.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2023 20:56:52 No.4208471 Report

Quoted By: >>4208490

>>4199146
Digital is absolutely devoid of soul you retard, and don't try to "huur is this shoot digital or film" because both will be shit through a computer screen.
The final step of photography is the print, and a film print will always have more soul than a digital one

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Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 2023 21:51:05 No.4208490 Report

Quoted By: >>4208552

>>4208471
We need a digital tranny pasta
>you will never have soul...

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Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2023 01:00:04 No.4208552 Report

Quoted By: >>4208592

>>4208490
Twisted by ADC and math into a a crude sampling of natures perfection.

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Anonymous Wed 26 Jul 2023 03:28:18 No.4208592 Report

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>>4208552
And film is an alchemists satanic brew laid upon an unholy substrate of tamed hellfire that steals souls. It doesn’t have soul - it absorbs it from its victims.

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