I find it sort of satisfying to hate that big store.
Ah, MalWart, you met all my grand expectations once again. I know you have issues with printing digital pictures. I could talk about color casts and suffocatingly heavy contrast and blocked up blacks and details thrown away. But why bother? A consumer gets what they pay for. Every time. Most of us already know that.
That first roll turned out (mostly) very much as I expected. But then there were just a few pictures that turned out really dark. I mean like, really really something-is-wrong underexposed dark. I went back through all the settings I had used and it didn't make any sense to me.
Printing pictures is one thing. Developing film and scanning is another thing entirely.
Have no fear! MalWart to the rescue!
Exhibit A:
Why did this turn out so very dark? My settings should have been good. I don't get it.
Or maybe that's not what the image really looks like at all.
Exhibit B:
Digital scan MalWart sold me with that printed image. Still dark, but night and day from the print. Ummm... what?
Exhibit C:
The digital scan from image number three. The one where I laid the camera across my lap to take some notes and hit the shutter with my elbow while the lens was aimed at the sky. Oops. Nice, huh?
But look closer. Such quality!
Developing my own film with coffee?
Maybe next time.
And yes, you actually can.
12 comments:
yes that's the solution, I figured it out- ask hubby to help fund a photo lab in your house. It's a natural progression and if you find other film fanatics, you could make a little $ on the side through processing. Brilliant.
Bizarre! I can't believe the square on the sky shot! Love the idea of developing with coffee! We have a MalWart going in down the street from us, and I’m dreading it.
I can just see you taking over a dark corner of the chicken coop to use as a darkroom. That would be so funny!
I'm already mentally scanning your house and barns for a good place to set up a darkroom. Maybe you skip the whole upstairs bathroom thing and change it to an upstairs darkroom. Surely, hubby and the kids won't mind. ;)
Miss you, miss you, miss you. Sorry I've been such a lousy blogger, but I hope to be back just like before... soon or even now!
Lol. I've never even shot with film...on my bucket list :)
That is MalWart for ya... always managing to disappoint. I like the developing film with coffee idea. I might have to Google that:)
Amanda, not disappointed as much as intrigued and flabbergasted. And... curiously enough, an entire paragraph of my post is missing, where I mentioned that I was willing to take a chance on MalWart with this first roll rather than spend $30 with a real professional lab. The results were entertaining enough to be worth it. :)
I am honestly a bit shocked you had your film developed at Wal Mart. ; ) And it is quite curious why the prints are so different from the digital scans. Where does one go for quality film developing if they don't want to experiment with coffee?
very perplexing. that quarter of the sky one is crazy!
coffee - that's a new one.
my dad used to have a darkroom in our downstairs bathroom. i have fun memories of developing film with him and printing pics. it quickly gets expensive - especially the way i do/did it, with lots of mistakes. :) maybe that $30 isn't so outrageous after all. :)
MalWart...hahaha... Luv that. Perhaps the dark print was developed at night and the scan during the day, thus the 'night & day' difference.
At any rate, I luv the chicken. Of course.
I honestly didn't realize there were real, professional photo labs to take film to anymore. I always just used to drop mine off at the local coffee shop/movie rental/ lunch place that also developed film. Then, I migrated to Target until I crossed over to the "dark side" of digital. Rather crazy that MalWart can do such a poor (and yet) intriguing job. In any case, it's still a nice picture of a chicken!
Hahahahahaha! Malwart will get you everytime! But seriously, there's got to be another solution! I avoid that place like the plague, not easy but I try. Sorry it turned out so badly, but it makes for a great story. :)
That is so weird!! The sky thing is bizarre.
I've used our WM a few times for pictures... none of them were THAT bad. ;) I make up a calendar every year for my mil and my parents at WM. Maybe it's different in Canada?
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