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Re: a lot of over-exposed negatives: what to do?
Shannon,
I would like to recommend that you consider storing them in the refrigerator
instead of the freezer, because I know of someone that did this with exposed
film and unlike raw film that is sealed, when they took the film out of the
freezer, the temperature change was so dramatic that it provoked excessive
condensation and many of the negative were ruined by sticking together. I
suppose this depends on the climatic conditions where you are at the time...and
the season.
Robert
Carl Weese wrote:
> I want to concur with something Jeffrey just said: If you've got a large
> batch of negatives and realize that you don't know how to handle them for
> good results, the best thing you can do is stick them in the freezer with
> notes on how they were exposed. Then do brand new work 'from scratch' until
> you are getting negatives that print the way you want. It's likely that
> learning process will give you a much better idea of what can be done to
> rescue the earlier negatives, if you still want to bother with them after
> doing the new work.
>
> To editorialize for a moment, one of the most frequent traps photographers
> fall into is to spend more time struggling to print existing work when
> they'd be better served to spend the time making new pictures that print
> easily. There's no special virtue in struggling heroically to make prints,
> and no shame in making negatives so good you can print them with your hands
> in your pockets.
>
> ---Carl