Allegro23 Loc: Illinois Chicagoland Burbs

I recently took 64 negatives to a well known camera chain to be developed. Now I have some of the original pictures from these negatives, actually quite a few, but I wanted to have a new complete set. It is intersting taht with the digital process the liberties that were taken in making the new copies. Many of the pictures had the shadows removed or the ocean was made to be much bluer or the clouds were changed. In some cases the pictures were completely different from the original. The picture I took and the picture the picture they produced, the scene I saw, are not at all the same. Digital software now allows the people making copies of your pictures to produce them as they think the picture should look like, not what it actually was or did look like.

Pasha69 Loc: SoCal beach area

I have had similar experiences with Costco where brackited shots all look the same. Is the answer to send film to a custom lab? I'd be interested in other members experiences.
Thank you

Allegro23 Loc: Illinois Chicagoland Burbs

Well maybe that is the answer but this was Wolf/Ritz, Ritz/Wolf Camera store chain. They just sell photo equipment, and photo related products, cameras and so forth.

Pasha69 Loc: SoCal beach area

Some years ago I believe I read that modern photo processing equipment is set up to compensate for mistakes amateurs make ie over/inder exposures so everyong gets "perfect" prints. Don't know if this is the case but my Costco experience seems to bear this out.
Thanks for your reply.

Allegro23 Loc: Illinois Chicagoland Burbs

Thanks, the problem lyes within there concept of what is a perfect picture. What they may think is an error by the photographer, but in actuality was not, but the actual scene especially in reference to lighting and lanscape photos. So the point is you are at the mercy of someone elses opinion as how they think the scene should look.