Photography is a must. The type of photography you choose is up to you.  Digital photography today has become a more versatile format than film, and often rivals the quality of Medium format film.  The advantage to digital is simple:  Digital offers you more choices.  Digital images can be easily converted to black and white prints, sepia tone, or hand colored prints, the choices are yours.  When I shoot film, several variables factor in what I will photograph and how many images I will take.  For instance, with a common photography package that includes 36 photographs with film, I would expose around 48 to 60 images.  Shooting digital I now can easily shoot 60 to 100 images, giving you a better choice of what you want.  I also can combine styles of photography, shooting the more traditional posed portraits and combing them with the more candid photojournalistic styles gives you the best of both worlds.  The photographer now becomes his own Photo Lab, cropping and making color corrections to our specific interpretations.  The images are more of an extension of how we want you to view them.