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Just developed my 500th roll of film and realized something weird
It was a roll of Kentmere 400 I shot last week. I've been doing this for a while, but hitting that number made me see how much I've learned to read the negatives before scanning, just by looking at the density. Do you guys have a personal milestone that changed how you see your own work?
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lunah863mo ago
But what if caring that much about the negative makes you miss the actual photo?
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derekcarr3mo ago
Yeah, the part about reading negatives just by looking at them. I mean, I hit a point maybe a year in where I stopped seeing them as just steps to a photo. They became the real thing, you know? Like the object itself. That changed everything for me. I started to care more about the negative quality than the final scan sometimes. It made me slow down a lot when I was shooting.
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angela19115d ago
500 rolls and all you learned is how to squint at film? Congrats, you earned a new way to kill time.
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