I have a feeling that part of the nostalgia for film was the lack of need to get your images right in the first place. Basically, the wide latitude of print film allowed you to be quite sloppy in your exposure and still produce good prints.
Since I mostly shot slide film during those 'wonderful' times, I still had to get the exposure just right. Of course, the weddings were print film and the lab would adjust them for me. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 4:18:49 PM, you wrote: PS> I shoot at least 300 exposures for each 7-room virtual reality tour I PS> do. I frequently do two a day, and quite often shoot 800 frames. I PS> shoot jpegs after setting color temperature and exposure very PS> carefully. For each tour, I upload 210 shots to the client's web site PS> -- three bracketed exposures for each shot. I rarely do any tweaks at PS> all, and I usually can deliver the finished job within an hour or so PS> after arriving home. The only time I've tweaked shots is when I've PS> missed the color temperature on a room with multiple light sources. In PS> that case, I open all 30 shots for that room, create a PhotoShop PS> action that adjusts color balance (or photo filter), saves and closes PS> each shot. The computer will do the thirty shots in a few minutes. PS> Trust me, there ain't no art involved:-)). PS> I can't imagine shooting the VTs on film. And if I were doing what PS> you're doing, I think I'd approach it the same way: Digital jpegs, PS> carefully exposed. PS> For everything else, I shoot RAW. But for labor intensive, multi-shot PS> work stuff, jpeg is a lifesaver. PS> Paul PS> On Feb 3, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Jens wrote: >> I do get your point , Paul. >> But I do not do artistic photography. I may do 800 aerial >> photographs (exposures) in just one hour. In my opinion, noone >> appriciates all the computerwork enough, to justify the many hours >> (dollars worth)of editing, needed for finishing the job. It would be >> very tempting for me just to deliver the (many) film rolls to the >> lab, look the prints through and then give the client the best 10% >> for scanning. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72157613037760083/ >> >> Regards >> Jens >> >> -- >> Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. >> >> On Feb 3, 2009 13:08 "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Jens wrote: >>>> Hello >>>> Sometimes I want the film-days back. Imagine how easy it is to shoot >>>> >>>> some film and have a good lab develop the prints. The lab will >>>> darken the too bright images, correct colors and brighten the to >>>> dark images. Then you choose the 10 % best and send them for >>>> scanning. Then you give the CD to your client. >>>> >>>> No more long hours at the computer converting or editing all your >>>> RAW files, tagging them, filing them, changing hard drives etc. for >>>> >>>> your images. Just give the client the prints and the CD. Get paid. >>>> >>>> End of story! >>>> >>>> Those where the days, ehh? >>>> >>> Um, no. I never found a lab that could print a negative the way I saw >>> it. Even the best labs relied on their vision of what a shot should >>> be, not mine. That's why I shot a lot of BW and risked poisoning my >>> system with chemicals, day after day, for hours on end. >>> >>> And scanning? Unless I paid top dollar for drum scans at the pro lab, >>> the results were crap. I had to scan myself and couldn't really >>> afford >>> the best equipment, particularly for medium format. >>> >>> Those were not the days. >>> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>> and >>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. PS> -- PS> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PS> [email protected] PS> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net PS> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
