My Worst Shooting Experience To Date & Yet One More Thing To ALWAYS Have In My Kit!

[StoneNYC]

I'd posted my worse mistake in this (there was a url link here which no longer exists). I wasn't taking the photos, but I was part of the mistake.

I believe the lab guy has nothing to complain about since he didn't read the cartridge... Kind of his job...

 

[Truzi]

Perhaps, but our parents wanted color pictures.

 

[Shootar401]

Setting up on a NJ transit train platform with my 8x10, take my new Schenider loupe out, start to focus and put the loupe on top of the rear standard to put a filter on the lens. Doing so I knocked the tripod and my new $120 loupe falls off. I watch it roll in slow motion onto the gravel between the tracks.
So if anyone wants a new, but slightly used loupe and you are at Metropark station it's yours.

 

[StoneNYC]

Perhaps, but our parents wanted color pictures.

LOL! That sounds funny the way that comes out... But we want color! Make these B&W photos color ones mr lab guy! Haha

I know they checked the color box on the envelope etc, but it's humorous in it's own way.

At least the B&W actually came out.. Perhaps if you still have them you can scan and colorize them (if don't know how to do that but I know it's possible) or you could hand color some prints I think it's Eddie that's good at that?

 

[Vaughn]

Ants!

Not a shooting experience, but when we moved into a new house several years ago, I put most of my boxes of matted dry-mounted prints(16x20 matted 20x24) in the store room in the garage with the idea of making space for them inside the house. I went to move them and ants had used a few of the boxes as nests. I laid the prints on the driveway to get rid of the ants -- then it started to rain. Bummer.

 

[StoneNYC]

Not a shooting experience, but when we moved into a new house several years ago, I put most of my boxes of matted dry-mounted prints(16x20 matted 20x24) in the store room in the garage with the idea of making space for them inside the house. I went to move them and ants had used a few of the boxes as nests. I laid the prints on the driveway to get rid of the ants -- then it started to rain. Bummer.

They are prints... Could you remove them from the matte and re-wash them? Or would the fibers get caught in the emulsion?

 

[Vaughn]

They are old silver gelatin prints...most I have another copy or two of. Ant shit is pretty nasty.

A classic example of why some folks do not dry-mount.