12d ago

DAE shoot a roll of film and realize your phone made you lazy about framing?

Noticed the same thing happens with the zoom ring too. On my phone I pinch and swipe without even thinking, but with the AE-1 I had to physically twist that lens and it slowed me way down. Last month at the Pearl I caught myself zooming with my feet instead, just stepping closer to a bench and a dog, and the shot turned out way more alive than anything my phone ever gave me. The weird part is the phone trained my eyes to see a whole scene at once, like a wide safety net, but film forces you to pick one thing and commit. That commit part is what makes the keepers.