Last Updated on 07/14/2017 by Chris Gampat
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When it comes to working with film, there are a number of photographers who have obviously done it for years already. But interestingly enough, you don’t apply the same techniques necessarily that you would with digital photography. So here’s what you can do and the Golden Rules of Working with Film Photography:
- Slide film: Expose for the highlights, but personally I like to overexpose just a tad due to the way that I light.
- Color Negative film: Overexpose the film by around a stop. I’ve found great success in then developing normally.
- Black and White: Lots of photographers like exposing for the shadows and developing for the highlights. Personally, I tend to shoot a lot of black and white film the box speed or giving it a bit more light or less light depending on my personal tastes. But with some films, you may not want to underexpose them–like Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 which is a near infrared film that needs a lot of light.
That’s it! Good luck!