analogphotog

Thank you for your answer, it didn't show up in my email earlier which is why I didn't reply. I'm sorry, I agree with all of your points. I am figuring out the contractual terms now, and we are meeting on Friday to sign everything, which is why I've asked.

All very good points, thank you. I will not be including the negatives. For my other work I haven't provided negatives, I've just held onto them in case the client calls me awhile later and wants more prints, I just didn't know if it was different for something huge like a wedding. Thank you so much.

I don't think that you can get more eco-friendly than Caffenol C development, a vinegar stop bath and something like a hypo fix. The quality will be lesser than with using proper chemicals, but it will get the job done and is really cheap.

The rule for expired film is to push the film one stop for every decade past it's date, but since it's slide film that may be less applicable. I would push it one stop and only use it on a nice day in natural light, any further and you'll start to lose the fine grain and bright colors that make shooting slide film worth the hassle. If you're sending it out to be developed, make sure that you tell them to push it one stop as well, it shouldn't be an issue. Otherwise, good luck! I love Ektrachrome.

This is my first wedding, though I've been a photographer for the last decade or so (since I was 15) and have been taking photos as my primary source of income for about a year now. I shoot exclusively on film, mostly on medium and large format cameras and do everything the so called "old fashioned" way, in the dark room that I have set up in my spare bedroom. The bride and groom know me and know this and are paying for alternative processes like platinum prints for some of their photos. The workflow that I've decided on for this wedding is to shoot it all, develop the film, make my contact sheets, get rid of all of the bad shots and double takes that I don't want my name attached to, and then go through those contact prints with the bride and groom so that they can choose the 100 photos that they want to be in their album, finally print them and scan them so that they can put the photos on social media. What I'm wondering is if I should keep the negatives of those prints, or give them to the clients along with their printed album? I've seen a couple of posts on the internet from wedding photographers (using digital cameras, presumably) that we should only give our clients absolutely finished products and never include any unedited photos or anything that wasn't in the album, and I get that but I wonder if that advice applies to me because my photos aren't being worked on in photoshop and by the time that the film is developed into negatives, most of the "editing" (pushing or pulling the film, using different developers, stand developing etc.) is done and the only other changes that are happening are a bit of dodging and burning under the enlarger if necessary. I would never give out the negatives of photos that I didn't like or of any photos aside from those 100 prints going into their album, but should I give them those negatives with their album, or keep them? Since this is the Internet and I know that this is something that people like to argue about, I feel like this is important to say: I am not interested in a digital vs. film debate, I love working with film and in the dark room, I've started a career and been thus far successful working with film, and I'm not going to switch. Otherwise, thank you so much for your answer, and I hope that you're having a great night. — Piotr