Sunday, April 24, 2011

Retro Getty

We have featured images of the Getty Center on Lensored before, but not using retro photography. On a recent visit, I left the digital camera at home, and took only the analog Diana F+ and a cellphone with the 'Retro Cam' phone app. This is intended to be the first of two posts comparing 120-film black and white analog photographs (the real deal) to faux-retro digital photography (less authentic, but far more convenient and cheap and with instant gratification). The reason for this being an "intended" rather than "actual" post, is that 120-film takes a week to develop and frankly, I have no idea how the pics will turn out...

Assuming everything turns out fine, this may be how we settle the debate on which retro photography technique is preferable...or perhaps it will just get more heated.

Either way, here goes....