Prior to beginning the shooting part of my project, I spoke to a few photographers who had experience with both film and digital cameras. These photographers included Serge Levy, a photographer who I spoke to during our expert evening, Mr. Todd, and Tory Williams, a family member and professional photographer.

Each of them gave me some insight into what film photography has to offer compared to the digital that I was used to, but all of them described the effect that the length of the process with film photography had. All of their statements centered around the discipline and consideration that is required when shooting film, as well as how one was able to get to know each photo better between shooting and editing each image.

Personally, I felt that the discipline they had mentioned was something I learned very quickly as I started to shoot with film, but also when I switched back to digital. I found that I had a much better sense of when something was really worth capturing, and if I could compose the image well enough to produce a final image worth taking in the first place. While I learned to adapt to the lack of quality-of-life features on my film camera, I also came to appreciate the features that my digital camera had much more than I did before. In terms of the editing process, I became much more selective of which images to edit and spent much more time editing my digital photos, which I picked up from the necessity of doing so with film. Through this editing process, I noticed an interesting visual feature between the photos I had shot on film and those I had shot on digital; dynamic range and detail. The dynamic range of my film actually appeared to be better than my digital camera's sensor. Where a photo I had taken on a sunny day through an archway might show some of the detail in the shadows, there was a limit to how much I could extract through editing, as when dark enough, my camera just didn't capture the detail. On the other hand, I felt as if with film, the detail was actually there, and through dodging and burning with a long enough exposure, I could reveal that detail in the final image. This may just be a result of how I targeted shadows in my images, but it wasn't something I expected, as nobody had mentioned it to me prior.