The series of shots on this page where all taken on the same day about two weeks after I lost my job. There is nothing more therapeutic for me than to grab my camera and start wasting film but every so often I get something I like. Like bad computer repair it’s referred to as the shotgun technique, every so often you hit something.
These particular shots were scanned from the print rather than the negative for a couple of reasons. The first and foremost is that I’m too lazy to get up and go upstairs to get the negative, secondly these prints were already sitting by the computer. I think Nancy was going to reference them for the negative in order to scan them for card prints of some sort (see www.faithfulcards.com). Finally Wal-Mart didn’t do too badly of a job with these prints. What you say…Wal-Mart? This guy is really rank amateur. Well this guy is rank poor. I’m the first to admit that a person who is willing to risk sending his stuff out at Wal-Mart must be crazy…or poor. I’m a little of both. I can’t tell you how horrible you feel when you get some of your best shots back and find that the negative is horribly scratched, has chemical stains, or bad light leaks from the processing. The prints usually are improperly exposed and blurry but I can live with them being crap because I just use them for reference anyhow. So why do I continue to go there. It’s easy! Four bucks to process a roll with 4x6 prints. Other junk labs charge twice that amount and you can forget private labs. So what’s a couple of extra bucks? I do ten or fifteen rolls at a time usually and the unemployment check doesn’t go very far unless I want to give up eating ha ha ha. So God bless Wal-Mart I say. If any of you wise guys have a cheaper or better way please let me know. Let me also add that for the enlargements that I might sell I have them done by another lab that does a decent job. I wouldn’t send anyone a Wal-Mart print. |
