photo processing

[tali122]

if you have your photos develpoed and they come out poorly, how do you know that it wasnt any poor photography on your part but a mistake/error by the processing company - and , given that they are the experts how do you prove it?

[gary baldy]

Most of the high street processors are not the experts you would like to think.
The processing and printing machines are badly maintained and usually operated by someone on minimum wage who wouldnt know a good picture if they saw it.
Good printing is more than half of the battle when it comes to decent pictures and a decent printer will access each individual print and correct them. The high volume processors just chuck your film in and pull it out of the machine at the other end.
The best thing to do is either find a small independent photo processing shop (ask in an independent camera shop - not jessops- who they would recommend) or go the extra mile and send your films to a proffesional printer.
Cost you a bit more but you will get much better prints presuming your shots are properly exposed and in focus in the first place!

[Toureman]

It is easy to prove if you have the negatives. It is a simple process the negatives go through and it is very rare for them to be badly processed, it is the printing of the photos which is more skilled and where mistakes are made.

It could be your use of the camera though.

If you go digital you would not have this problem.

[boderectium]

Going digital isn't the answer, what a strange answer! Digital photography is a lot more complicated than tradtitional methods.

Errors at the taking stage are very different from the printing stage and it takes someone with knowledge to know the difference.

As mentioned above, finding a good printer is half the battle in photography, but if you are using a point and shoot camera in fully automatic mode, don't expect to have good photographs!

Buy a good camera with some sort of manual control, an SLR for example and seek a good printer. Not your local chemist or the cheapest advert you find in a magazine.

Enrol in a night class if you want to improve your photography.