Why Your Film Photos Suck

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Film is dead.

Hey, no need to call me out like that 😤
Jk, thanks for the great tips

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Needed this!🎉

I use a photo lab that does great work. And yes transitioning from digital where you can see the photos you just took and with white balance and histograms it's easier to get good photos. And then switching to film where you have to make it happen. In digital the camera works for you. In film. You work for the camera.

great video, thanks!

When I started film in 1992, no one shot wide open. It was considered unappealing and a rookie mistake. t8 and be there.

You didn't say, but overexposure in negative (print) film is ok, whereas reversal (slide) film is more like digital and doesn't handle overexposure well; colours will be washed-out and lacking detail.

Well said. Thanks.

The only thing i would tell "novice photographers" to work on.... is composition... that really is 90% of what makes a photo work or not... there's a reason some photographers are outstanding and we remember 1000s of their images... while others are completely forgetful... and it's not the camera, lens, film or lights they use... it's because they know how to compose a photo

Study the work of photographers that inspire you... study WHY they work... study their composition... study their light... study their technique... camera and lens and all of that doesn't matter... Annie Leibovitz will shoot a better picture on an iPhone 1 with a cracked lens than you on a P1 IQ5

Shoot at 1/2 speed of what the film is rated. Hah, editing (Suck it John!) :p

Black and white is NOT cheaper. When you look to have it developed by a lab the cost is more than color. So if you get a 3 pack of Fuji 400 it’s about $8/ roll and $12 to process it and have it scanned: so $20. If you get HP5 that’s around $9 and $16 to process and scan. Sure there are cheaper black and white films and there are more expensive color films but practicing with black and white is dumb. Black and white has like 3 stops of latitude in either direction for most film stocks so if you make an exposure mistake you haven’t learned anything. Contrast that with a roll of 100 speed film like Proimage (which is super cheap) that has narrow latitude for exposure mistakes and you learn that exposure triangle pretty quick.

My film photos don’t suck, ha! I don’t know why you assumed they do - I suppose that’s just clickbait.

Wish I would have told myself ‘Don’t take the same shot twice’

Thanks for your views—really insightful! As someone who shoots with a Minolta X-700, I’m always looking for new knowledge, and there’s definitely some great takeaways here.