9 Years Ago

Sold My First Film Photograph Today - Well Sort Of

I finally sold my first film photograph today! Yippee!

I also received my first ever quality issue email from FAA, stating the photo is too noisy. I jumped into a cab to my lab (don't worry, cabs are cheap in Bangkok, it only cost me about $2.50 :) ) to have a better quality scan made on their Imacon scanner. The previous scan was run-of-the-mill I think, made in Japan. Hopefully the better-quality scan will give me some headroom to address the quality issue so that the sale can go through.

Fingers crossed, Im going to pick up the scan later this afternoon and re-upload it to FAA.

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Anita Dale Livaditis

9 Years Ago

Yay! Good luck! I know that email is a heart stopper. I love your film work.

Marlene Burns

9 Years Ago

Fingers crossed.

Jenny Rainbow

9 Years Ago

Good luck on that sale, Dean! I too have some digitized film images on FAA, but due to not so great quality, I made them mostly with textures or other treatement. Its so sad as with my film camera i have been in such exsiting destinations as Australia, HongKong, Singapore,France,,Italy,Greece,India and so on - really pity its not a printable quality - also due to the age of films..

Dean Harte

9 Years Ago

Well, I've just added a higher-res version with some noise reduction applied. Here's hoping it will pass!

Richard Rizzo

9 Years Ago

Congratulations Dean, it's good to know that film photography still sells or at least that's what I felt when I sold a few of mine in the past.

Dean Harte

9 Years Ago

Thanks Richard, still waiting on word from FAA HQ though to see if it actually sold :)

Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

I think the new version should print. It's a scan from a slide, so they should factor that in. Looks good to me.

Dean Harte

9 Years Ago

Not from a slide, but a negative - Ilford HP5, which is kind of grainy anyway. Still no word from FAA hq

Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

Well, the point I was making is that it's a digital print from an analog source and hopefully they will take that into consideration. The grain works well in that vein in my mind.

Val Arie

9 Years Ago

Hi Dean, I think grain looks good in this shot...good luck...hope it's ok.

Tracey Furnival

9 Years Ago

You gave it your best shot. Best of luck.

Rich Franco

9 Years Ago

Dean,

Congrats!

What I might do, if you have more of these images on your site and shot with HP5, is to add to your descriptions, that "HP5 is the Ilford film,most closely producing images as did Kodak's Tri-X, which was noted for it's contrast and grain." Something like that...........

AND get better scans if needed! LOL!

Rich

Dean Harte

9 Years Ago

thanks folks. Still no news from FAA. Is no news good news?

Dean Harte

9 Years Ago

The 48-hour replacement window has closed and the print is still listed as sold. When I just logged in though I still saw the 'there is a problem with your image' warning. Asked FAA just now whether the sale has gone through.

For future prints, what about a color code for sold prints? Green is OK, Red is rejected, orange is pending after an image was replaced.

Dean Harte

9 Years Ago

OK just received an email from Dawn - new upload accepted, sale went through :) Actually a 30" print too. I'll invest my earnings in more film I guess, or some more high res scans!