Originally Posted by Flying_V_Goddess
I can take hundreds of pictures at one time. Sometimes I'll go "Oooh. This looks interesting!" and it doesn't turn out the way I want it or it wasn't as cool as I thought it would be or I wasn't holding my camera steady and it became blurry or the angle was all wrong or the flash made everything to bright or the lack of flash made everything darker than it really was. Imagine how many rolls worth I'd waste! I usually end up with more wasted shots than good ones I can use. With digital I don't have to wait and see if anything turned out and end up with dozens of useless photos that I'm going to throw away and are going to be in a landfill forever.
Most of us who were serious film photographers did not print every photo and rarely took them to a local processor. I made a contact sheet and decided which ones to print, how to crop, etc. The real magic with film happened in the darkroom with someone who knew what they were doing. Digital seems so MEH to me. Anyone can play around in Lightroom or Photoshop, change things, and then claim skills they don't posess. I guess that is why I think the skill of a photographer as an artist is diminishing. Shooting film required you to think of composition, lighting, aperatures, f-stops, etc. It wasn't something most amatuers understood how to do without a class. You just aren't going to see the "true artists" come along much anymore. It is sad. I guess I can go back to the OLD camera that requires glass negatives. My husband's grandfather made his own negatives and developed them himself. We have some of his glass negatives from WW1 and earlier.