It is interesting to note in the blogsphere the growing numbers of photographers making similar comments about moving away from a digital workflow and returning to film. Certainly for me making a digital capture does not impart the same feeling of craftsmanship that working on a film camera does. Not having the instant feedback the digital workflow provides forces my inner eye open again and makes it necessary to marry all the technical knowledge about exposure and optics with my artistic intentions for the image in order to create the photograph I am after.

I was intrigued to notice how much more involved the people I was photographing became when they were in front of the large format camera. Partly in response to the novelty of it I would guess, but I think they were also impressed by the obvious effort it took me to play my part as a photographer and felt inspired to work a little harder at giving something back to the process of creating the image in the role of the subject.