Photography is an important skill among many needed for a career as a professional graphic designer. Though you will definitely focus on photography in a graphic design degree program, you might not get the chance to decide which you prefer: film or digital photography!

1. Digital vs. Film Photography A Graphic Designer's Dilemma

2. Benefits and Pitfalls of both Photography Mediums To be a graphic designer in the fast-paced professional design world takes a lot of creativity, and plenty of savvy technical skills. To name a few, a graphic designer must know a lot about web interfaces, typography, sketching, and professionalism when dealing with employers or clients. Aside from all of these skills, these days graphic designers have been incorporating photography into their work more and more. In fact, photography classes have even become a staple in most graphic design degree programs. However, a graphic design school student begins to learn about photography, how are they to know the advantages and disadvantages of shooting film photography vs. digital photography?

4. The first image was captured on film in 1826 by a French scientist named Joseph Niépce.

5. In the early 1900's the first film cameras were mass-produced and made available to the general public.

6. Since then, cameras have become regular household items for the masses.

8. The quality of image on film negatives is higher than the average digital camera's image quality.

9. Negatives are light and easily stored.

10. You can keep physical copies of your images that don't take up digital space, and aren't in danger of being lost if your hard drive crashes.

12. You have the freedom to shoot many more images, and put less pressure on each exposure to turn out well since you can shoot a limitless amount of images.

13. Instead of waiting until your negatives are processed, the LCD screen on the camera lets you see the image immediately after you have shot it.

15. There is a risk of losing them if hard drive or computer technology happened to fail on you (which it often does).