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Old 13.10.2008, 16:50   #30 (permalink)
martinb
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Default Re: Who still shoot films professionally

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Originally Posted by Riccis View Post
Martin - My workflow is actually a breeze and, this was one of the reasons I went back to film, because of the simplified workflow. See, I was spending way too much time trying to make my digital work look like film and decided to use film to begin with.

Even though I live in Florida, all my film is developed and scanned at my lab in L.A. (Richard Photo Lab). I overnight all my rolls after a wedding to the lab and within two weeks or less, I receive all the high-res scans and printed proofs. At this point all I have to do is sort the images, remove any bad shots and upload to the client's online gallery. The total time I spend on sorting, uploading and activating gallery is less than an hour. Also, because of my sometimes hectic travel schedule (to give you and idea, I've had 4 weddings and four engagement sessions over the six weeks in New York, L.A., New York again, Italy and Boston) my turning around of the digital work was taking more than I wanted it to be.

I now have more time to network with wedding coordinators and magazine editors than before. I can also concentrate on better servicing my existing clients and taking care of things that are more important to my brand than just sitting at the computer doing post-processing.

BTW, outsourcing my digital RAW conversions was never an option since I had my own post-processing style that is different than the regular digital work you see out there.

Cheers,

Thanks Riccis!
Do you feel safe to ship such important film? How do the lab scan all those shots? can't be Imacon or drum scans? would cost hella lot of money for so many shots.. Frontier or Noritsu?
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