Need Opinion on this Photo

[RattyMouse]

It is that kind of news I find very worrying for the analogue future. We have a whole class of film users in a highly populated country where there might be a market for analogue who never have considered making any prints. It just isn't the 21st century way, so to speak

The good news might be that film is so good that despite it being easier to go direct to digital they prefer film. The bad news is that printing as we know it has gone off their radar. The potentially disastrous news is that in fact they don't really find film to be that much better, they just enjoy the novelty of it or being able to tell their friends they are different but like any other novelty it will wear off.

pentaxuser

Maybe every one is printing at home? Perhaps that's why there's no commercial service. I do see bags of Dektol and plenty of Ilford paper at my film shop so the chemicals for printing are available.

That's the positive spin in this situation.

 

[Butch-Askew]

Without knowing a lot more about the shot, it is difficult to tell. It appears that the photo was taken around mid day, judging by the length of the shadows of the individuals in the foreground. I am in the high desert of the southwestern US 5000 ft above sea level. On a day such as this photo was taken, clear sky and within a couple of hours of mid day, UV is very high and the light tends to overpower shadows. If you look at the windows that are within shadows they are black, if you look at the backpacks they are black along with the dark vehicles. Almost everything else within the photo is white with a lot of light reflecting from it. It looks to me like a true representation of what was there when it was taken.

 

[Pat Erson]

I have met several local Chinese who shoot film, via flickr, and none of them ever have wet printed their film. They are 100% digital in their output.

They don't even make contact-sheets? That's baffling to me and it kills the very purpose of working with films...

 

[Sirius Glass]

I do not see a problems with your photographs.

 

[RattyMouse]

I do not see a problems with your photographs.

Neither do I now.....in the thread you'd find that the problem was all at my end, with monitor calibration issues.