Mistakes

[bojanfurst]

So I was printing in the darkroom and have ruined a print because I did not notice that I accidentally dialled yellow to the max instead of adjusting focus. Anyways, it got me thinking and I remembered some of the darkroom mistakes I really regret. Below is a photo I really wanted to turn out well, except I totally screwed that roll up in development. In fact, it was probably screwed up when I did not advance the film all the way through :bang:- whatever. Do you keep any of your spectacular #$%^ -ups?

 

[oftheherd]

I try to forget them! 😛

Of course, I salt them away in the back of my mind so I hopefully don't do the same again.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

All my mistakes are safely filed in the trash can. 🙂

 

[robert blu]

The call it experience ! Experience is a sum of mistakes, trying to see the positive side!
robert

 

[Vics]

All my mistakes are safely filed in the trash can. 🙂

I used to do that, too, til one day I was walking with my daughter past the home of our neighborhood crazy and saw all my discarded prints from the previous night's session pasted all over her old IH Travelall in the rain. I've never seen my daughter laugh that hard. "Dad! It's your long-awaited one-man show!"

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Vic, I hope you bought a shredder. 😉

 

[pschauss]

Somehow I have gotten into the habit of putting all of my less than successful prints in a pile next to the table where I put my prints out to dry. Some are outright failures while others are simply prints which came out too dark or too light or out of focus. Every now and them my wife or my daughter will "rescue" one or two from the pile.

 

[Chris101]

I wash and dry my 'mistakes' just like the good prints. Then I experiment with toning or other after-the-fact processes on the mistakes, 1) to get an idea of what will happen, and 2) sometimes it rescues the print.

 

[nikon_sam]

Printed mistakes get torn up and thrown away...don't even let them dry...
Film, either for testing or just stuff not even worth keeping gets shredded...

Chris...that's a great idea of saving them for toning tests...

 

[shadowfox]

Do you keep any of your spectacular #$%^ -ups?

I do, but I don't know what they look like now, they are all stuck together after a while.

 

[shadowfox]

I used to do that, too, til one day I was walking with my daughter past the home of our neighborhood crazy and saw all my discarded prints from the previous night's session pasted all over her old IH Travelall in the rain. I've never seen my daughter laugh that hard. "Dad! It's your long-awaited one-man show!"

Funniest post I've read here since a while!!!

😀😀😀

 

[Tom A]

Funniest post I've read here since a while!!!

😀😀😀

That is funny! Hope you got a picture of the IH Travelall with all the prints pasted on to it. Please post!

 

[Moto-Uno]

HI All
As a newbie,if I threw out all my mistakes,I'd have nothing .The room for
error in printing exceeds that when using my Mockva-5.(I gotta stop falling
for these weird alice cameras)

 

[Haigh]

I keep a lot so as to know what to do next time.

 

[Steve M.]

Failure is simply success on a level that we don't fully understand yet. 🙂

That's what I told the IRS anyway.