{"id":761,"date":"2016-11-27T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2016-11-27T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T10:59:57","slug":"on-not-developing-and-printing-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2016\/on-not-developing-and-printing-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"On not developing and printing (right now)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog post on <a href=\"https:\/\/filmphotographylondon.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/26\/film-photography-in-a-digital-world\/\">Film Photography London<\/a>, Sandeep reflected on &#8220;why bother shooting film if you don&#8217;t even develop your own film or own a darkroom?&#8221; and commented &#8220;I always equate it with the football analogy of I can\u2019t be a proper fan unless I go to away games&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Pah, develop and printing your own shots? Well, why shoot film if you&#8217;re not going to prepare your own emulsion, coat your own negatives and of course build your own camera (and don&#8217;t think you can get away with not grinding your own lenses)?!<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t a fact that if you don&#8217;t do what me and my mates do, you&#8217;re not as much of a do-er as us. Some people would like to tell you that it is, but it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s just an opinion, and a mean-spirited one at that.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Expired films\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jamesdavies\/15561207404\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/8\/7464\/15561207404_d6e49a8d87_n.jpg\" alt=\"Expired films\" width=\"320\" height=\"222\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is a fact however that until you take your photograph, you haven&#8217;t taken a photograph. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2014\/its-worth-remembering-that-photography\/\">Everything before or after that is part of many processes that come together to allow that to happen<\/a>. There may be a few people in the world who can play a part in all of them, but most of us can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done darkroom and home developing and printing in B&amp;W and colour, and I think it&#8217;s great. But I don&#8217;t have the space, time or money to do it right now. If I have to get someone else involved in that process then so be it &#8211; they are still developing and printing what I chose to photograph. Of course they may have an influence in that, but so do lots of people.<\/p>\n<p>For example the film manufacturers decided what the films would do &#8211; sensitivity, format, expiry date. The camera manufacturers decided the cameras would do what they do &#8211; lens(es), shutter speeds, ergonomics, mechanisms. I&#8217;m glad they did &#8211; they are better at it than I would be.<\/p>\n<p>And so it is with D&amp;P right now; the labs that I choose do what I ask them to do, at a time that suits me, and they pay more attention than I could to fresh chemicals, the temperature and purity of the water, washing the negs, keeping the scanner clean, and turning my moments into something I can reflect on. This helps me enjoy photography and (sometimes) get better at it.<\/p>\n<p>In the future I might go back to developing and scanning my own films, and maybe even printing. I might even get good at it! But for now not doing it does not stop me shooting film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog post on Film Photography London, Sandeep reflected on &#8220;why bother shooting film if you don&#8217;t even develop your own film or own a darkroom?&#8221; and commented &#8220;I always equate it with the football analogy of I can\u2019t be a proper fan unless I go to away games&#8221;. 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