Film Processed

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned how I borrowed a Canon Rebel Film camera. It's not that I have a lot of time in my hands to pursue a different area of photography. For one thing, I would like to acquire the discipline film shooters have when clicking that shutter. Digital cameras give us instant gratification but on the other hand, makes us reckless, trigger-happy photographers.

So I used up 3 rolls of 24-shot Kodak film I got from Target for about $6.00. One thing readily apparent was, the habit of being trigger-happy was still there until my second roll. I even paused to check behind the camera forgetting there's no LCD to show me how I did with the last shot.

The 3 rolls sat in my bag for a good 3 months. Finally yesterday, I remembered to drop them off at Walgreen's to have them processed. The lady asked me if I wanted the photos in the CD as well for 3.99 (each roll). I declined thinking that we have a gigantic All-in-one HP to do the high quality scanning for me. Wrong. The photos look awful when scanned with a regular scanner. A film scanner (which Walgreens probably uses when they sell the CD version) would probably do a way better job of scanning the photos.

Anyway, just to demonstrate what I mean, here are 4 photos scanned from our HP scanner. Trust me, the photos look way cleaner than these. Provided that our monitors probably are so finely-defined that every pixel of imperfection is magnified, the photos shouldn't look this grainy. All these straight from the scanner without any post-processing. Just minor cropping:

both photos taken in the playground by Carmesi in RSM




Was gonna crop and post it as 2 separate photos but has a collage look so i am just posting as is.