Asha
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Following on from the recent thread about "Keeping track about what's on the film", I'm curious as to wether filmies hold onto every negative that they shoot / process..
I suspect that I am possibly in a minority as I only keep those negs that offer me an image that I am happy enough to print out onto paper and thus keep as what I call a "true photograph" which will give me pleasure when viewed in the future.
Up until quite recently ( several years ago) I kept all the negatives that I shot, regardless of wether they were good, bad or darn right ugly.
Following a number of changes in my life ( including changes within my photography), I cleared out masses of negatives / photos ( and no I have no regrets, quite the opposite in fact as it has been quite liberating ( for me personally)
This clearout included all formats.
The frames of formats such as 35mm that I have kept along with their positive prints are often just individual negatives cut from the rest of the film, thus, ., destroying the other 35 negatives.
From experience I m aware that sometimes one can have a different view of any given shot and effectively "revisit" the processing of that said frame to come away with a pleasing photograph.
I continue to keep this in mind and don't destroy the negs immediatley after processing ( unless they are completely naff / ruined), however if after several months, ( a max of a year ) has passed and the frame still offers an unpleasing photo, then the neg finds its way to the bin.
This process that I have also applies to digi files but for the purpose of this thread posted in F&C, I'm relating the topic / thread to film negsatives.
So what do you do with yours?...…...
I suspect that I am possibly in a minority as I only keep those negs that offer me an image that I am happy enough to print out onto paper and thus keep as what I call a "true photograph" which will give me pleasure when viewed in the future.
Up until quite recently ( several years ago) I kept all the negatives that I shot, regardless of wether they were good, bad or darn right ugly.
Following a number of changes in my life ( including changes within my photography), I cleared out masses of negatives / photos ( and no I have no regrets, quite the opposite in fact as it has been quite liberating ( for me personally)
This clearout included all formats.
The frames of formats such as 35mm that I have kept along with their positive prints are often just individual negatives cut from the rest of the film, thus, ., destroying the other 35 negatives.
From experience I m aware that sometimes one can have a different view of any given shot and effectively "revisit" the processing of that said frame to come away with a pleasing photograph.
I continue to keep this in mind and don't destroy the negs immediatley after processing ( unless they are completely naff / ruined), however if after several months, ( a max of a year ) has passed and the frame still offers an unpleasing photo, then the neg finds its way to the bin.
This process that I have also applies to digi files but for the purpose of this thread posted in F&C, I'm relating the topic / thread to film negsatives.
So what do you do with yours?...…...