How has digital changed your photography?

[Toby Key]

Since I purchased my DSLR I've noticed that very quickly it has changed the way I photograph. I shoot a lot more frames and rely on automation a lot more than I used to, although this has started to lessen with experience. Often I've found digital is akin to thinking out loud, with film I would ponder before shooting visualising and checking different angles. When shooting digital I shoot almost immediatley working towards the final image by reviewing the LCD as I go. I was just wondering how you guys work and whether you feel digital is all positive when it comes to your method of making an image

[JohnL]

I use the LCD more for checking exposure in the histogram than for checking composition, but I do often shoot more frames of a subject, fine-tuning composition, than I would have done with film. I did it with film too, just not as much.
I tend to use aperture priority most of the time for exposure, dialling in some compensation when I judge it is needed. I select the aperture mainly on the grounds of DOF, but also with some consideration of the resulting shutter speed - that is more or less the same approach as I used with film, even with manual cameras. I chose aperture first as a rule.
I use AF quite a bit because I have it, but if I can't get the point to light up where I want it, I switch to manual focus. That's quite rare in practise. That's also much the same as I did with film since I had an AF camera. Before it was all manual.
The biggest difference of digital for me is the control it has given mere mortals like me over the final image, via post-processing, even in color. Much more than we had even over B&W with film, doing our own developing and printing. I never did any color processing with film.

[sblair]

I am also the same way about shooting more images. I do spend just as much time about composition as I did with film. One thing I don't need to do anymore is to take dups. I can print and/or share as many as I want now. I do like the post processing that you can do. I find that I am taking picture with post processing in mind. I can remove the telephone wire or other object that I don't like.

Steve

[DougK]

I think digital helped me become more willing to experiment because I didn't feel like I was wasting film if the experiment didn't turn out.

[Kin Lau]

I'd try for things I'd never be trying with film.

The DSLR also gets a lot of use as a tool, especially when birding, to document what I've seen, and also for ID purposes.

I've also experimented a lot more with flash, and how to make it look more natural.

Because digital shooting is more like shooting slides, I do use the histogram with tricky exposures instead of bracketing, but occasionally, for important shots, I bracket also. I also take lots more "insurance" shots.

[dostacos]

well after an initial purchase major hit, I will be taking more shots, and I don't have to wait for the pictures to be developed along with the two trips to my camera store so it will be saving money. [still using the bessa's for B&W