Why is that my film came out of focus?

Just got film developed and it came back weird looking and lacking color?

  • I just got 4 rolls of film developed and the place was closing when I picked them up. The film was bought and used just several days ago, at a wedding. The pictures came back looking almost as if I had taken them in sepia color - but I know I didn't because pinks and yellows are showing up. Lots of the faces in the pics have a greenish tint and seem blurry. Some were taken inside, during the day, and others were taken in the evening, but they all have the same look to them. This was taken with a 35mm Minolta camera - not a digital camera. I have several questions: Do you think it could be bad film? Or do you think it's the developer's fault? I also noticed that none of the people in the pictures were reflecting the light - or red eye. So it made me wonder if the developer tried to do something to fix the red eye and that's why the faces look blurry/discolored? One last thing I noticed was that I was missing four photos. I looked through the negatives and saw the four missing pictures there, and they look like they should've been printed. (They aren't all dark or too light) What would you think of this and what would you do about it?

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    You need to return to the lab and have them reprinted. Some one didn't do their job When they reprint the images, have them make high resolution digital scans and place them on a CD If you shot colour print film, the resulting prints should have looked just fine. Machine prints are just that. The machine attempts to correct of minor colour shifts.

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That's hard to answer without seeing your negatives and prints. Try to put them online or send me samples at [email protected] I am just guessing, but I think the lab blew it for you.

Keikihipa

Some basic issues with poor color and exposure control. Back in the day we would just go "opps, that one didn;t come out" and throw it in a shoebox. Yellow and green and hazy are lighting issues. Lightbulbs are many different colors. Look in windows as you drive around at night. There was this old car wash near my house that one booth has incandescent lights and one has fluorescent, one was yellow and one was green, very visable compared to the blue ambient light. Kodak has a yellow shift, Fuji has a green shift. Which may also be what you are seeing. Also, I'm assuming you didn't have a 1.2 continuous aperture with 800ISO film in there. Of course it's going to be blurry indoors and at night. Again, a few more of the many little things you can make an effort to become aware of to make your photos more and more successful as time goes on. The more you muff up, ask, try again, muff up again; the less you muff up. I've always said you become great when everyone else is making stupider mistakes than you so that they think yours are perfect; they just haven't made such advanced mistakes yet.

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