Roman Meyer photography
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Thoughts on analog <strong>photography</strong><br />
Analog photographs have a charm of their own. They are unreproducible, each is a unique<br />
creation, and even when several are printed from a single negative, no two are exactly the<br />
same. A high proportion of personal creativity goes into each photograph. Every picture is<br />
different – produced by a different process, on different paper, with different tonality.<br />
I love the emotion that film captures and the tonal qualities that are created by silver reacting<br />
to light. By using film I am required to contemplate and compose a portrait or landscape more<br />
thoroughly due to the limited amount of shots I can take, because every picture costs money.<br />
The cameras I use have only manual focus lenses and I need to set the aperture and the time<br />
I will expose the film. I actually decide and preconceive how the picture will look like. I prefer<br />
to shoot one or two images just right than 25 and then not even worry because I can use<br />
Photoshop later. There’s also the added benefit of having 70+ years of camera equipment<br />
to choose from.<br />
The magic of the darkroom In the age of Photoshop and instant digital imaging, it may seem<br />
futile to spend hours in the darkroom printing test strips and adjusting settings to find the right<br />
exposure, contrast and color balance for a single photograph. But there is something magical<br />
about the alchemy of <strong>photography</strong> and the tactility of handling the paper, mixing the chemistry<br />
and making prints by hand.
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