On 9/2/06, Take a wild, friggin guess <a_change_of_plans_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> It was taken at one of her friend's house parties (that she dragged
> me to, whee). Does film go bad over time? I ask this because that
> photo, as well as most of the other ones on that roll, are kinda
> shitty in quality. Or is that just because it's black and white
> film, and that doesn't photograph too well at night? I'll try to
> clean it up a little in Photoshop or something. It just looks kinda
> gritty. (I'm not a photographer, so I don't know these things). Of
> course, there could also have been something on the lens too, now
> that I think of it. Oh well. It's just a stupid photo.
Undeveloped film can go bad as the chemicals on it are sensitive
enough to deteriorate; that's why fresh packages of film have a use-by
date just like sandwich meat. Pictures taken at night are often grainy
because not enough light reached the chemicals to produce proper
color, so it gets kind of splotchy. Not everyone has a camera which
can increase the aperature or exposure time (and long exposures need
tripods or steadi-cams since they can get motion blurs), nor can they
always provide sufficient lighting in hallways or wherever, so there
are lots of grainy blurry photos around.
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Zach Collins (Siege)
Received on Sat Sep 02 2006 - 00:41:51 CDT