Just developed my 500th roll of film and realized something weird

It was a roll of Kentmere 400 I shot last week. I've been doing this for a while, but hitting that number made me see how much I've learned to read the negatives before scanning, just by looking at the density. Do you guys have a personal milestone that changed how you see your own work?

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lunah864d ago

But what if caring that much about the negative makes you miss the actual photo?

derekcarr5d ago

Yeah, the part about reading negatives just by looking at them. I mean, I hit a point maybe a year in where I stopped seeing them as just steps to a photo. They became the real thing, you know? Like the object itself. That changed everything for me. I started to care more about the negative quality than the final scan sometimes. It made me slow down a lot when I was shooting.