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<h3>What's it all about?</h3> <ul> <li><strong>It's a challenge</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's a bit of fun for the professional photographer</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's about enjoying past techniques</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's about hand processing film</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's about the anticipation of discovery</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's a test of our skills as photographers</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's about the smell of the chemicals</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's about loading a spool</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's about a fridge full of film!</strong>.</li> <li><strong>It's about taking pictures not because we are paid to but because we want to</strong>.</li> </ul> <h3>Why?</h3> <ul> <li> <strong>Why not?</strong> ... One body, one lens, one roll is all that's needed... </li> <li> To revisit those skills that helped many of us become photographers.</li> <li> To hone our skills in composition and content. </li> <li> To use light and the photographic process as they were used for decades before the advent of the digital image.</li> <li> To remember and relearn our photographic heritage, pay homage to the great photographers of our past and bring some of their brilliance into our photographic futures. </li> </ul> <p>Digital cameras and zoom lenses have bestowed great benefits on the image business, but at a cost. The line, once so clear between professionals and amateurs has rapidly blurred, especially to those with their hands on the purse strings of our profession.</p> <p>Many an "<em>old school</em>" photographer cut their teeth in the darkroom, learning from the images of others. Nowadays many a young hotshot has never shot a roll of film, let alone hand processed one.</p> <p>So we set ourselves a challenge - one body, one lens of fixed focal length, one roll of film, 36 frames, preferably B/W, hand processed.</p> <p>Pick your best six frames, scan them full frame - <strong>no cropping!</strong> We want to see what you saw when the shutter clicked! Upload and publish on Shoot36.com and caption with camera, lens, film and processing details.</p> <p>Shoot36.com is a collaboration by professional photographers for the enjoyment of professional photographers.</p> <h3>You ask Why? ... well, simply put - because we can.</h3> <p>Still need convincing?... <a href="http://www.shoot36.com/zenphoto/html/pages/case.htm" target="home">read one photographers story here</a>.</p> <p>Remember... one body, one lens, one roll... it's all that's needed...</p> <a href="http://www.shoot36.com">Privacy</a>