I'm pleased with one keeper per outing, and have often gone home with
nothing much at all as it turned out. But then I shoot a lot of stuff on
spec and it's mostly walk-around hand-held work that I do--the old
photojournalist in me, I suppose. I hope to get in a bit more thoughtful
tripod work this summer on vacation, but even so I'll be happy with one
keeper per roll. Film's cheaper than dreams!
Tris
At 01:58 AM 7/22/01 +0200, you wrote:
Rich wrote:
Just a quick note: I just picked up prints from Prolab here in Fremont
yesterday, and WOW! Are they ever beautiful! Even though it was $11 for a
roll of 24, I don't think I'll ever use the local drug store/Safeway/Walmart
again. They are that nice.
Any thoughts, comments from others re pro vs. the usual?
Well, I totally stopped using the one-hour and big mall kind of labs.
Every effort you've put into your pictures comes back greenish or redish
or just plain dullish. If one film is OK you can be certain the next one
(same brand/speed) is a catastrophy. I always get an index-sheet (is that
the english word for the whole film on one paper?) made by a tiny,
personal lab. It costs as much, you get the colours right, and you see the
_whole_ composition of every picture. (I hate it when they cut away
millimeters in the factory labs.) I then aftercopy only the pictures I like.
Of course I can do this only because I'm not good enough yet to succeed
with more than three or four shots per roll, so the few extra bucks it
cost to aftercopy is no big deal;-)
Henrik
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