Will Anyone Know you were a Photographer When You're Gone?

[@andrewcroft2570]

Great video Paul, I shoot a lot of film and recently bought a mint condition Rolleiflex model T, I look forward to seeing more of your prints. I only have one further thing to say “The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.” (Ansal Adams)

[@paulreidphotography]

Great quote that!!!! Thanks for watching.

[@walkingmeditation61]

Great video title. To me photography is like a diary you may share at times. I want to make a Platinum Palladium at some point so expensive so I have not decided which image to print yet ! You are exactly correct regarding the process of film. Your dog is very supportive too I can tell

[@paulreidphotography]

Platinum is king! I’d love to print everything that way if I could. The dog is always supportive! Ha haa

[@Darkroomer25]

Hi Paul. Just came across your channel and I’m already a fan. Would love for you to make some videos about your black and white editing process. Thanks

[@paulreidphotography]

You don’t seem to be the only one wanting this so I will see what I can do

[@johonew-EdD]

Thanks for the inspiration, Paul. I very much look forward to each and every video.

[@paulreidphotography]

Thanks so much! That means a lot

[@mwales2112]

Love your work Paul and look forward to seeing more images on Instagram..

[@paulreidphotography]

Thanks so much

[@chriscard6544]

you are the poet of street photography

[@leirumf5476]

If a wasn't stuck in south america, I'd jump at the chance of doing your street portraits workshop!!! I've been going deeper and deeper down that rabbit hole!

[@paulreidphotography]

Amazing!!! Would have loved to have you there

[@gerryphilpott9766]

As always Paul, excellent video and great question. I would hope so but not something I can control except do what I do and hope it makes an impression. Quick Q, I recall you saying you use a flash for some of your portraits and wondering if you use it on camera or off to the side? I can't find your video where you mentioned that. I'm deciding on either a smaller on camera flash with diffuser or a unit that I can use off camera but larger and more expensive. Thank you.

[@paulreidphotography]

I do use a flash rarely and it’s on camera flash. I use a small Leica flash. Just get the smallest flash you can

[@gerryphilpott9766]

@@paulreidphotography Thank you, I love low cost easy solutions! Keep up the good work.

[@thilipdhev]

U are very inspiring and positive. 😊

[@paulreidphotography]

Thanks so much!

[@ChuckAbles]

Excellent presentation! I am not up to the level you have shared yet with darkroom and enlarger, retirement soon coming. I do print my works that grab me at 8X12 on 11X14 paper and archive in portfolios. However, the photographs that really grab me go on the wall in my workout/gallery room. But I print to enjoy the process, share tactile images, and leave something for my kids and grandkids to remember this ol' man. Keep up the good work and sharing your thoughts.

[@paulreidphotography]

I agree!!! That’s my thoughts! The kids! The grandkids!

[@alanm.6096]

Paul, will you be doing any videos covering your start-to-finish processing of digital b&w images?

[@paulreidphotography]

I may do a quick example. I’m not much of a photoshop guru though

[@JRodPhotoArt]

Hello Paul, I enjoyed this video very much. I needed to here this. I have been thinking about a printer and now I know I need a printer. Why let the images sit on the computer! Well said. And maybe a dark room !!!

[@johnwaine56]

I have no interest in film photography - too much messing about for me! However … a salutary tale of the perils of digital file storage. After an online backup provider’s system failed and was no longer backing up my PC before a hard drive corruption, I have become paranoid about my data. I keep current copies on my PC and a second desktop external hard drive as well as automatically backing up to Dropbox. But I also keep at least two more copies of my photos - one of which is kept off-site to guard against fire, theft and flood at home. I’ve recently been tidying up these (now 10) external hard drives and discovered that one has failed altogether and another one is inaccessible but it might be fixable. So, where I agree with you 100% Paul is to print as much as you can in order to provide an analogue archive of your digital (or film) work. Oh and look after your negatives too! It’s not going to be easy to be remembered as photographers. Thanks for the prompt to get more prints ordered 👍

[@luzr6613]

Congratulations on making sense on the digital / film thing. The moment film is scanned the output (the artifact... the image) is no longer film - it is digital. This isn't a dogmatic assertion - this is demonstrably true. People banging on about uploading their film images - this is an impossibility: what is uploaded is a digital photograph of, in this instance, an image taken with a film camera... the relationship of the subject (an actual film photograph) to the digitization is exactly the same as if the subject were a cow in a field, and few people claim to be uploading cow's in fields - all is digital files. It's an interesting thing to me that, for months now, i've posted some version of this argument on filmy type channels and, unusual for me, i have never had a 'Like' or an acknowledgement or a comment come back - i have transgressed on some sacred myth. Glad you're printing - there is no other way to produce a film image: if i ever hear that you're exhibiting in a Gallery near me, i'll take my analogue self along for the pleasure of proximate contemplation of the actual-factual film thing. Cheers.

[@paulreidphotography]

Thanks so much! You are absolutely right! If we want digital then we may as well shoot digital. Scanning in film is kind of an odd thing to do. Hey I’ve done it myself. But I knew it was a bit crazy. I knew it didn’t make sense

[@luzr6613]

@@paulreidphotography I shoot both. I remember being able to afford to shoot one roll of film a week and hoping for a 1/36 success rate. One reason i love digital is that the clicks are free - i can have all the practice and take all the risks i could ever want for free. But once a month i shoot my Spotty and my beautiful Taks... and i don't scan (i double every shot on digital anyway). Have a good one!

[@johannacoyne776]

Thanks for the reminder of my brown fingernail days!

[@paulreidphotography]

Ha haaaaaaa

[@craighattam2020]

Gee Paul. I shoot digital but I miss the dark room. The smell and the excitement with the image slowly emerging.

[@paulreidphotography]

I love it

[@markgoostree6334]

Short answer.... no. At least not anyone outside of my family. I do not do anything with my pictures.... they just take up space in the closet... drawer... in the computer... and those boxes in the corner. Nobody cares.

[@deb2936]

Photographers cultivate a unique way of seeing the world. You notice light, composition, and fleeting moments that others might miss. You can shape your perspective on life and the beauty you find in it. Of course others will know you were a photographer when you are gone.

[@FoToEdge]

If your photographs have captured images of lost, destroyed and almost forgotten people, places and events that exist only in memories, urban legends, historical records and passed down over generations around a campfire or podcast. So, my answer is a definite MAYBE.

[@paulreidphotography]

Good answer!!!

[@chrismassa5891]

Will Anyone Know you were a Photographer When You're Gone??…..No and I’m OK with that. I photograph for me. I have shot photos since 1967.

[@paulreidphotography]

If photography makes you happy then that’s all that matters

[@chrismassa5891]

@@paulreidphotography Ive already had a monetary career in photography, it was a very hard road pre internet on film. Nothing special, travel photography, did an accounting text book, stock photography. Love your diving helmet project.