First Frame, Last Frame

Ever notice these 2 shots in your every roll?

My first is always carefully planned, metered twice and framed

properly.

My last is always in the midst of a series of great moments. The

shutter advance is always stuck(no more film) when I wanted more

shots after the last.

 

My first COULD also be half-framed, because I didn't advance

properly, or half-exposed if I was testing the shutter.

My last COULD also be some boring shots when I was too eager to

finish the roll or if the rain was coming down heavily.

 

 

For e.g In a wedding series, the first and last frame could be quite

interesting. Bride dressing up in first, ending with kissing the

groom in the last.

 

 

 

What have your typical First and Last frames of a typical roll been?

 

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No, this is NOT the Monthly Photo Project. ;))

My first frame is usually of the roof of whatever building/automobile I happen

to be in after loading film. The last one tends to be the best one on the roll and

its usually ruined by careless snipping while loading it on the reel.

Travis, just very quickly, I think both your first and last shots of the roll are very nice. Regards -

I find the the first & last frames in a roll of slides are the most likely to be screwed up by the processor. Also, I'm always in a big hurry to finish a roll to get it processed and wind up wasting the last few just to get it out of the camera, a problem I don't have with digital.

One solution, Travis, might be to take up using a view camera. Then, you can't tell which is the first or last, and you never have a problem with the advance stopping mid-stroke. (lol)

I usually shoot the lens cap for frame one so that my contact sheet (seven rows of five frames) comes out even.

My first and last frames are never as good as these!! But I share the same problem with the person above who said the last is often the best on the roll. With me, it's the one that doesn't fit into my 7x5=35 sleeves. I hate that. And I still don't know what to do about them. I have all these little snippets with one frame laying around collecting dust. Bad Tony. Bad.

Hey, we have seven by six neg holders over here in Switzerland. Should I sell them to you? How about the "SHEET"? :o)))

Joe Kallo's case happens to be my own. I still have some sadly missed shots in my memory which happened to be the last one in the roll and were spoiled beyond remedy.

 

-Iván

I was leaving a public place after shooting some film, and realized I had one more frame. What to do? Aha, I spotted a nice-looking girl nearby. Click! When I got the roll back, only half the girl was there. Fortunately, the good half.

Lutz, We in the US have the option of several different size

negative pages. But the 7x5 pages fit best for contact shees on

8x10 paper. That's why I use them anyway.

 

Luckily I normally have a few frames on each roll I don't mind

trashing. They don't have to be at the end, you can always cut

some out of the middle if they're bad pictures.

Yeah, Noah, but then you have to spend a long time hunting for an expendable frame that is in the right place to allow you to still cut all your strips five frames long. Been there, done that! If you have two extra frames, it's even worse.

 

How about this: make a habit of changing film after frame 35, UNLESS you see a once-in-a-lifetime shot right then and there? Just consider frames 36 and 37 as emergency frames only.