 So I often think about what the future of photography is like really what is the future where does this go and I'm not talking about in the next few years I'm talking about maybe in the next 10 and one thing that kind of Comes back over and over for me is that I'm watching movies and even though I can tell I can't watch Marvel movies and all that because I Cannot stand the CGI because it just looks fake to me and my eye picks up on that No longer can suspend any disbelief, but I bring that up only because although I still think it's bad It's getting better and better and better and there is going to be a point where CGI is Indistinguishable from reality now when you can do that Combined with you know the human desire that we currently have for the idealized image The idealized image being like images that are just perfect You know it's fantasy like if you go on Instagram everything's controlled perfect perfect immaculate composition Immaculate light immaculate model immaculate makeup everything's perfect, right? But what happens when you can do that in a computer? Think about it. What happens when you can more successfully illustrate a vision and With computer graphics and by taking it and yeah, some people are gonna be like well It's not the same as capturing a moment and I'm not saying it is but for Photography that amounts to pretty much illustration empty soulless images that have no meaning I think it's pretty similar and so here's what I actually think is going to happen and it's happening for me now But I think it may become a greater trend and there actually is a bit of a trend it is beginning I think people are going to return to shooting film Because they're going to no longer think a photograph. They're gonna separate a photograph from an image and what do I mean by that? There's no doubt. I mean you can call a digital image a photograph. I know it's technically a photograph in my head The way I view it. I don't think of it as a photograph I think of it as an image But when you can create those perfect images people are gonna start rethinking what an image actually has to look like So why would you want to take perfectly clean crisp super sharp images when you can see gi it better? That's what I think so This is why I've returned to film I've returned to film because I don't want that super clean idealized image and it's funny I've gone full circle because when I started out with film. I could not afford a medium format camera. I once in a while got to shoot with a four by five, but I used to complain about the Low quality of most 35 millimeter color images I was producing I just didn't care for the quality specifically when I blew it up so it didn't have the resolution I wanted and What was a fault at the time not being able to see your image right away? Eventually became a strength. That's what I love about film is you shoot it I'm sorry. I typically know what the image is gonna look like, but there's still that element of surprise You know seeing it when it shows up for the first time when it's you get your negatives back if you send them out Or if you do it yourself, there's nothing like that so I've struggled with what an image should look like for the last ten years so I used to think Okay digital superior at least it's overtaken film in a technical sense, right? I always complained about filtered photography. I never liked it because I always thought okay That's not a photograph a photograph should look clean and simple. So I never did much editing to my work so now I'm at odds with that idea of You shouldn't do much to a digital image to now questioning. Well, what exactly is a photograph? I Mean what is a photograph and why does the photograph have to look real because eventually we can make real with a computer? I hope that makes sense. I hope it's not too heady of an argument, but I guess I'll sum it up with this I'm just talking at this point I'm just talking. I'm just talking. I'd like to know what you guys think Yeah, I'm like, I'll end with this and I literally had no idea what I was gonna say So let me know what you guys think Where is photography going or image-making going is there going to be a return to film? Do you guys think we're seeing it now because statistically? Yeah, we are seeing a revival of film So what do you think? Let me know in the comments. If you guys want more film content more philosophy Please like and subscribe and I'll see you tomorrow All right ending audio