backlog!

[FrankS]

Not film to develop, but negative sleeves to contact print. In one binder, I counted 130 pages, spanning several years of shooting, and in another with just my european vacation pics from 2008, there are about 40 pages. It's a rainy day and I have not been assigned any projects, I should simply log off RFF and get'r'done!

 

[Sparrow]

Just the four sheets/neg-sleeves to file away at the moment ... :smug:

 

[FrankS]

Well, I knocked out 28 contact sheets, all 6x7 negs taken with a Makina Plaubel 67 in England and France. That's about the capacity of my darkroom's drying system - string strung across the ceiling.

 

[jordanstarr]

Yes, Frank...as they say on the rigs, just get 'er done. 28 a day = 4 days of work.

 

[Sparrow]

... oh, and they're scanned copied to two independent hard-drives and CD

 

[Bob Michaels]

Not film to develop, but negative sleeves to contact print. In one binder, I counted 130 pages, spanning several years of shooting, and in another with just my european vacation pics from 2008, there are about 40 pages. It's a rainy day and I have not been assigned any projects, I should simply log off RFF and get'r'done!

Frank, have you considered that possibly it is time to begin working with current photos and leave the last few years shooting and the 2008 vacation for whenever you get around to it? I mean if they have waited this long, they certainly are no longer urgent. You don't always want to be working on things that are years old. If you fell this far behind, is there any reason to logically assume you will ever catch up?

Side note: have considered just using sheets of negatives on a light table instead of contact sheets to edit from? That works for many of us.
Personally, I quite making contact sheets when I began to seriously ask "why?" I found the only reason is that I had always done it that way.

I absolutely support your comment about logging off the internet and actually doing something real. Far too often we fail to really accomplish something because we spend all our time on line talking about doing something.

 

[FrankS]

23 sheets of 35mm negs contact printed - '08 EU vacation done!

Thanks for the suggestions Bob, but I work best when under pressure, such as the pressure to catch up. I can do it!

 

[Chinasaur]

Frank,

Interested to see what you took..going to post somewhere?

 

[nikon_sam]

Contact print your sleeved negs...who does that???
I used to do that in high school...it's very rare when I do that now...

 

[mooge]

Frank,

Interested to see what you took..going to post somewhere?

^ what he said.

no pressure. 😉

 

[Thardy]

I have rolls and rolls of film just hanging around needing to be put in sleeves and scanned.

 

[FrankS]

Contact print your sleeved negs...who does that???
I used to do that in high school...it's very rare when I do that now...

What can I say, I'm old skool.

Now that I have contact sheets, I can see what's worth scanning. Maybe as soon as tomorrow.

 

[Tom A]

Frank, would love to see a scan of one of your contact sheets.
Personally, i stopped doing contacts in the late 80's - early 90's. I hate doing them and kept procrastinating until the sheer volume of files made it impossible. I have always edited from negative files - after a while it gets easy to judge - and scanning a questionable neg only takes a minute or two when in doubt.

 

[FrankS]

Tune in tomorrow Tom, I'll do that for you. Scanning and internet posting is a secondary use for my pictures. I <a-hem> make silver gelatin prints primarily.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I'm currently at about 300 rolls of developed film that I have not had time to choose pictures from and scan.

 

[deirdre]

I'm currently at about 300 rolls of developed film that I have not had time to choose pictures from and scan.

That's a ton.

 

[retnull]

I find it quicker to take digital photos of back-lit negatives, and invert the image in Photoshop. Doesn't need to be perfect, just good enough to find which negs are worth scanning properly.

 

[ChrisN]

Not film to develop, but negative sleeves to contact print. In one binder, I counted 130 pages, spanning several years of shooting, and in another with just my european vacation pics from 2008, there are about 40 pages. It's a rainy day and I have not been assigned any projects, I should simply log off RFF and get'r'done!

Frank, I thought you'd talked about this only a little while ago. So I had to search, and found it was back in 2007! 🙂 Time flies! Back to the darkroom for you!

I'm totally caught up with both developing and contact sheets at the moment.. The pleasures of having a long holiday! 🙂

 

[FrankS]

Chris,

Fortunately I have kept up with film processing but yes, too long out of the darkroom for enlarger work. I also posted a while back about using the large picture window in my living room as a giant light table in order to match the neg sleeves with their contact sheets in order to file them into binders. I'm about to do that again today.

 

[FrankS]

Here is my European vacation - the B+W's:

(some scans to follow)