I don't think of film photography as being 'old fashioned' particularly, but when I'm discussing photography with person-down-the-pub and want to distinguish what I do from digital photography I do find myself using the term, "old school photography" as a reinforcement.
Sometimes I say "with a camera" as reinforcement.
I'm a computer geek by trade (more of a geek herder these days), so there's often this similar question, "Do you program?" I usually say, "Not really, unless you call scripting programming." I suppose if you ask me if I've shot anything this week, I'm likely to say, "Not really, unless you count Instagram."
Sometimes I think of that when people ask about photography. Do you mean do I own a DSLR? Have I been published? Do I have pictures of my kid on my phone? Do I make any tangible images via any visually reproductive process?
Do I take pictures? Almost daily.
Do I make pictures? Very rarely. Not enough.
Do I call myself a photographer? Almost never. Sometimes amateur photographer.
The worst question is, "What kind of photography do you do?" What do they mean? Color? Film? Surrealist? Portraiture? Color film surrealist portraiture? "Slacker photography. I walk around with a camera to avoid doing the dishes."
Easiest is to just reach in my bag, break out a 40-year-old camera, and they say, "Oh." Hard to find a sympathetic 'waster in these parts. Either they're bitheads and want to talk iPhones and Photoshop or they're pros and don't really care.
