It just looks better.
My name is Paul Reitano, and I am a portrait and wedding photographer based out of western Massachusetts. I serve all of New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the rest of the Universe. I am a hybrid shooter, meaning I shoot film and digital, but vastly prefer the look of film. Not because I am some latter-day hipster or celluloid snob, but rather because it simply hasn’t been improved upon, at least not for meaningful work. When the lights go down, or during a fast paced event, digital certainly has the advantage. But for anything that counts, for images that stand the test of time, film portraiture, particularly on B&W film, has never been replicated. Modern digital technology has given photographers the ability to (kind-of, sort-of) recreate the look of celluloid, but in truth only film looks like film. While film has grain, digital has ‘noise’ which might tell you everything you need to know. It has the distinction of somehow being both soft and sharp, flattering and imperfect, and most of all, it just looks better.
