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Nov 19, 2008 19:13 |  #1

This was brought up in a podcast I was listening to. The question deals with work flow. I know many here have never shot film so I will explain the meanings behind the question.

When you shoot film you have basically 2 chioces. Slide or negative. (This we covered already) But it is how many photographers handle the 2 that is so different. With negative you developed the film and left it whole or possable cut it up. But what you did NOT do, is cut out frames you really like and throw the rest away. This is mainly because of how the negative carrires work in enlargers so we kept almost all of the frames.

With slide you developed and laid the film out on the light table and you DID cut out the good ones to mount. The rest goes in the trash. And because there is nothing you can do with a bad slide we were rather ruthless in the selection.

So my question is do you now that most of what we do is digital... Are you still ruthless in your selections or do you keep everything?


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Nov 19, 2008 19:15 |  #2

I tend to cull my digital the same way I did both types of film...

Either it's good and useable or it's trash.


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Nov 19, 2008 19:18 |  #3

I'm blurry and out of focus, but always positive, neva negative.

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Nov 19, 2008 20:27 |  #4

I'm a negative, for sure.


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Nov 20, 2008 05:59 |  #5

I'm a negative, too. You never know when you might need an OOF shot of a flower pot. :D


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Nov 20, 2008 06:42 |  #6

definitely slide for me.


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Nov 20, 2008 06:44 |  #7

I let everything slide.


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Nov 25, 2008 18:08 |  #8

negative. i tend to keep a lot of junk :o


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Nov 25, 2008 18:59 |  #9

I'm a slide. I only keep the ones that make me happy - although I'm pretty lenient in that regard...


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Nov 26, 2008 03:21 |  #10

I wish I could be a slide.
I feel I am a closet slide.
I am trapped in the sometimes lazy, sometimes paranoid behaviours of a negative, keeping stuff which will never see the light of day (good pun, huh), but I don't have the courage to invert. Can someone please CTL-I me
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