One of the great advantages of film over digital is subtle. With digital, you never have two more frames to shoot at the end of a roll after you’ve finished your project. So with digital, you just quit shooting. With film, you’re forced to shoot two more. Or one more. Almost no one ever just yanks the film out of the camera early.

So, in that way, film encourages more experimentation than digital, which simply allows it, but doesn’t insist.

photo: Me, in the driveway, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about doing more portraits. Portraits are wonderful to do when you like the people you’re photographing, and less fun the less you like them. After shooting a lot of portraits for a couple years I knocked off for a while.

But demolishing a back room in our house reminded me what it’s like to shoot in a bare, contained space, in which you can control just about everything in the photo.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a studio?

I shot some good photos of Lisa this afternoon and this wacky one of myself.

photo: Bob, 2008