AboutSteve Meltzer Expertise I am a professional photographer and I've been shooting for newspapers, magazines, commercial clients and artists for over 30 years.
I have shot stock photography for dozens of years and in 1977 created West Stock (Seattle, WA) which was one of the first to produce stock photo CDs and later one of the first to establish an online stock photo slaes site.
I have a new book on digital photography "PHOTOGRAPHING ARTS, CRAFTS AND COLLECTIBLES (Lark Books, 2007)which is available at Amazon.com, eBay.com and in bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. I have another book, CAPTURE THE LIGHT which will be puiblished in November, 2008.
I write 20-30 feature articles and columns for regional and national publications a year.
My education includes studying with photographers like Cornell Capa, Duane Michels and Oliver Gagliani (from the Ansel Adams Center.)
Expert: Steve Meltzer Date: 3/8/2007 Subject: exposure to light on non-develped film
Question I know this is the dumbest question but .... i have a habit of quickly removing my film from my camera after I finish a roll. Yesterday I spent 3 hours shooting a subject and was quickly pre-occupied. I then went to place more film in my camera thinking there was no film in it due to me always taking the film out. I then quickly exposed the undeveloped roll of film to light. My question is the roll ruined or may I still have some savable images toward the beginning of the roll?
Answer Chauncey
Been there, done that. You'll lose no more than the last ten frames if you popped the back open and quickly closed it.
hope those weren't the best of the shoot. And thatyou retained your cool and retook a few of these frames.
