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Need Help - 8/9/2006 5:38:03 PM   
saran0036


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Status: offline 		I am needing help.  I have taken some very exotic, nude, and some explicit photos of myself for one of my Master's birthday presents.  I am needing to know if anyone out there knows of how or where I can get them developed.  I do have a printer at home, but the quality is horrible.  How about those places you can mail your rolls of film into?  Does anyone know if they look at your photos while they develop?  I am not for sure what if it would be illegal or not?  Any infor anyone has would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
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RE: Need Help - 8/9/2006 6:16:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Several acquaintances of mine have used Intimate Exposures before with no complaints.  Yes, they will look at your photos.  All print houses will.  They need to in order to verify exposure levels and color balance.  Unless the subject matter of the photos shows you performing illegal activities, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

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RE: Need Help - 8/9/2006 7:58:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		If they are digital you can take your memory stick to Walgreens or other places and develope and print them yourself with their machine.

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RE: Need Help - 8/9/2006 8:12:02 PM   
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ORIGINAL: proudsub
If they are digital you can take your memory stick to Walgreens or other places and develope and print them yourself with their machine.

That was going to be my advice as well.  Most photo developing places can take cds, discs or any USB device so you can print whatever you want in whatever size you want.

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RE: Need Help - 8/9/2006 8:35:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		You do NOT want to use a commercial lab of any sort.  Not all photo houses look at the film they are developing.  It depends on the technology -- automatic developers such as "one hour photo" stores do not use any human eye in evaluating film.  Traditional photo labs DO have to scrutinize film.  Stef is right about that. 

I would not however trust "intimate exposures" or anyone else in the photo development industry.  The reason is simple:  human beings are nosy.  Even in fully automatic labs the employees look at the shots, and copy the "good" ones.  (By the way, in most automatic labs, the employees are part time high school and college kids.)   I have worked in the one hour photo industry -- where there is NO need to actually look at the shots?  and every outlet I visited had a "wall of shame" or a photo book of stuff the kids saw and liked.  Usually sex pix, but not always.


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RE: Need Help - 8/9/2006 8:41:44 PM   
DiurnalVampire


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I happen to run a one hour photo lab for a major drug store chain.
We are NOT allowed to process any photos that are explicitly sexual in nature. Aside from nudes (which we have to get approved by management to make sure they arent underage), anything that is sexual in nature we are supposed to skip, and include in the envelope a statement about the legality of processing those pictures, and some sort of public descency or indescency thing.
You can find the ocasional person who is willing to process film like that even though they risk getting i trouble (I do it, but I am the department manager, so I am not about to yell at myself) however it is a major risk for them since corporate may have penalties for breaking their rules.

Your best bet would be to get a good photo printer. Or, if your brave, call around to some of the smaller photo developers, anonymously, and ask them if they will print it. Stay awa from the big chains, in their attempts to be eople and family friendsly, tey ave imposed some ridiculous rles on the pictures we are supposed to or not supposed to develop.  Just imagine what I see here in Vegas... nothing phases me, but tey stil hve the rules.  We just bend thema little.

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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 3:58:02 AM   
FangsNfeet


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Status: offline 		You can send them to me.

If you aren't that experienced with doing your own pics, you can always seek the aide of a pro photographer. There happen to be a few who are in the life style. I'm sure you could meet one or two at a local munch.

Any how, all is legal. After all, if it wern't, we wouldn't have Play Boy, Hustler, SKANK, and such. It's what you do after you have to pics developed that might cause a legal issue. But, if you're only going to give them to your master, you aren't looking at anything criminal.

In the future, I suggest you go digital. It can save you a hassel in finding places and or people who will be willing to develop your film.

Did I fail to mention that you can also send them to me?  

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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 5:53:34 AM   
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automatic developers such as "one hour photo" stores do not use any human eye in evaluating film.
  Yes indeed they Do- Since this what I do for work. I  am also a Manager of a Photo Lab.  I can tell you - Yes I see each and every picture , my company's  system of photo machines every picture IS viewed on a computer screen. I have developed many pictures over the years - nudity/ sexual acts etc. I have no problem with it . The only thing I would suggest is to ask before you drop them off.   We are not allowed to judge anyone on what they take pictures of unless of course  they show some thing of an illegal nature or of question with kids. Even still I know some tech's are not comfortable  printing them. My new system shows all the pictures on a screen before I hit print. One time I did a roll for a man, who was posing in various ways showing off his ....friendHe  told me what they were of in so many words LOL  and asked  if I had a problem with it . I said no. I was glad he told me because I was able to cover the screen- so anyone who might of walked by would not see them. Now if they were digital- a good place would be CVS I hear  their digital system prints them right out of the machine,  you pick and choose which ones you want and then put them in the envelope ( just be aware that other customers in the store can walk by at any time and see the screen) very early morning would be about the best time to do them. 
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employees look at the shots, and copy the "good" ones. 
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 and every outlet I visited had a "wall of shame" or a photo book of stuff the kids saw and liked.
- I find this hard to believe. I'm not saying it is not the truth but just how many years ago was this? As for the Photo industry today This is Illegal  and cause for immediate firing. NO one is allowed to copy anything and we sign  a legal form  stating  we are to protect the customers privacy.   
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 (By the way, in most automatic labs, the employees are part time high school and college kids.)
  This is true- however  as I said if You go in the morning usually the photo manager  is there and they are not  a high school kid- so it is best to ask the manager.

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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 6:13:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was going to say.  I have stood there at the counter and watched the employees examing all the photos on the computer screen.

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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 6:38:12 AM   
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To the OP, before I give you all the advice I can, I need clarification on a few points. I see you mention "rolls of film". Is it one of those disposable cameras? Or was this an example? Did you use a digital camera? If so, what setting did you take the pictures at? Did you check your printer settings for the quality of the print?

What I'm driving at here is that there are a few "tweaks" you can do yourself. Personally, I have a 4.0 megapixel digital camera and can make certain adjustments for picture quality right in the camera settings. This could solve several issues for you. Do you have a paint shop or photo shop program? These could be useful as well. As to the printer itself, when you print, there's a dialog display box that allows you to make choices between types of paper, number of prints and print quality. Click on "Properties" or "Printing Preferences" (depending on your software) to make these adjustments. Select "Maximum dpi" or "Best" to achieve best results.

I have a fairly new computer and printer/scanner/copier, so you may not have the same versions of software. It helps to know what machines you're running and the operating system. I'm no techie guru (my boyfriend is, lol), but over the years, I've fiddled around quite a bit and I've paid attention to the mistakes I've made and to the lessons I've learned. So, to help you out, I really do need more information about these items.

Final step, paper. Are you using plain paper? Glossy? Photo quality? Different papers have different results. One tip though, do not leave other paper types underneath.

As to your concerns for whether or not the technicians processing the pictures at a photo lab are viewing your pictures? Surely, for the reasons stated by previous posters. It's quality control. Good rules of thumb when processing your prints;
  1. Are you engaging in intercourse? (anal, oral, vaginal) The major chains won't process those.
  2. Do the pictures depict you engaged in illegal activities? Same policy. Some chains also have an additional policy. They will notify police for an investigation.
  3. Do the pictures portray anything sexual with animals or children? Same policies.

Hope these tips helped. If you can find out what your operating system is and what type of printer you're using, I can help more.


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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 6:46:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		I work in a 1-hour photo lab also.  We are not allowed to print any nudes or semi nudes of any kind.  It is the company policy and all employees of the lab must sign, each month stating they understand this.  Its not the developing that is the problem, its the printing. 
Even on the digital machines, they can not have nude prints from our store....I suggest to people that they use the two day service.  Human eyes normally dont see any of those, as they do such a volume of business its not possible.
This or printing at home is what I would suggest.......
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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 7:18:27 AM   
swtnsparkling


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I work in a 1-hour photo lab also.  We are not allowed to print any nudes or semi nudes of any kind.


My company's policy does not state Anywhere anything about us NOT  being allowed to print nudity or semi nudity. We are not  the judges with other peoples lives. We are not to print anything illegal of course or somehting  of concern with unmentionables.
However there are circumstances a tech may be uncomfortable printing them and are not forced too - but it is not a company policy. This is why I suggested asking first.

I agree the send out service is a good bet- as those labs are huge  and the amount of orders  they do so large everything there is automated - this is why some times you will get back a totaly black print or with streaks of red or yellow colors from exposure-  or even some thing so fuzzy no image can be seen.  Because No person is viewing them to take those prints out of an order like  we do with 1 hours.

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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 9:11:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		I took pictures of the buildings in Oklahoma after the bombing, before and after they imploded the building. I took the roll to a WM to get developed. When I returned to pick them up, I was informed that the film was "destroyed" (They didn't destroy the film, they said it was bad film) I was really upset about this because these were "once in a lifetime" photos. I will never get another chance to document a piece of our history. I didn't believe them then and still don't. I took in 9 rolls of film that day and got all but that one roll back. The roll that had the OK bombing photos. 
 
I can't give any advice as to where to take your film other than to make sure it is a trusted source. Which is hard to find these days.

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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 12:48:09 PM   
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 Yes indeed they Do- Since this what I do for work. I  am also a Manager of a Photo Lab.  I can tell you - Yes I see each and every picture , my company's  system of photo machines every picture IS viewed on a computer screen


Are you saying that you view all the pictures printed on a do-it yourself machine? I always thought you just stick your memory stick or disc in there and out pop the prints.

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RE: Need Help - 8/10/2006 3:24:28 PM   
swtnsparkling


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Status: offline 		Yes Proudsub that is what I am saying. In our stores our digital machine center sends the order to the photo machine where we then open the order and send it to print just like any 35mm film

I know that some stores such as CVS there digital machine prints them right there almost like a photocopier. On the same idea as the Kodak Instant Photo Machines still on some stores. Called the KPM

MoGa,
I'm so sorry this happened to your film. As far as I know of they have No Right to take the film it was your property. I have never come accross anything like this before. Did you demand an explination? If the film was bad as they say it should of still been returned to you.


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RE: Need Help - 12/14/2006 6:50:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes I agree you should be fine as long as your not shown in danger you could also drop a note in with them asking for privacy
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RE: Need Help - 12/15/2006 1:00:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've sent in some pics at Walmart that had some nudity in them and Walmart would not print them... but I always get them put on disk as well and the pics with nudity were on the disk... I just print them at home.
 
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RE: Need Help - 12/15/2006 7:06:58 AM   
swtnsparkling


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Status: offline 		Some places just wont print nudity- either they are not allowed to or the tech on duty does not feel comfortable doing it. I however have and do print them. Since the photos appear on a Computer like screen- some one walking by could see them, I will cover the screen to insure the customers privacy.


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