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I Love Shooting Film, But I Hate the Film Photography Community
Let’s all share our passion of images instead of being purist a**holes
Like most millennial that didn’t go to art school, I started photography with my smartphone, then moved on to an actual DSLR, and I am now using a mirrorless camera. Because it’s trendy, you know. But I also shoot film. Probably because I’m a hipster. It looks cool to walk around with these old SLRs without taking any picture or pretending that you are composing a shot but giving up because you don’t want to waste a single of your 36 exposures.
I won’t go through the ‘shooting film slowed down my process and makes me think twice before pressing the shutter’ part because you probably already know about that. That’s not what I was looking for when I was started shooting film, but that’s what ended up happening anyway. Because I’m a millennial, I’m poor from drinking lattes and eating avocado toasts every day so spending money on film is almost like a luxury.
I enjoy shooting film. I like taking candids on film. Because it looks organic, because it makes me capture only these moments that make me deeply happy. It’s such a different experience. I keep my digital equipment for more professional stuff, but I use film for most of my photos.
