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this might be more appropiate in the critique section, so mods please move it if you feel so.
This question deals with film so no PS advise on how to fix it.
I recently went to the UP ([SIZE=-1]Upper Peninsula of the state of michigan) which is connected to lower michigan by the mackinac (pronounced maciknaw) bridge which is the 3rd longest bridge in the world. anywho on the way back i shot a roll of film on the bridge, it was all lighted up pretty and the light from the city of mackinac was makeing cool shaddows on the low cloud cover.
well alas i sent my roll of 26 shots in and got 19 back. Being new to night film photography (ive dont quite a bit of night with my digital point and shoot) and being that my light meter doesnt work after a shutter speed of 1/4th of a second i extensively bracked my shot. i did full stop increments from 1 second to 60 second exposures at f/8. the 1, 2, and 4 second shots didnt work, the negatives are completely blank so the lab saved me the trouble and didnt print them. however all the shots i got back were pretty bad, not compositionally, but as far as color and detail none of them really worked.
I would like some help on solving the problem. obviously i dont want to waste entire rolls of film.
so here are the specs and an example picture. (this one turned out the best)
It was 10 degrees F / -12 degrees C which i shot these pictures using a tripod and a release cable. I used Fugi xtera 800 speed film (is this the problem?)
settings were f/8 and i believe this was a 32 second exposure.
this was done with a 80-200mm lens at 80mm.
what im most disappointed with is the color in the bridge. look at the reds and the greens. there seems to be a halo or just a smudge here.
also even in the under exposed pictures around 4-16 seconds, the colors of the bridge look the same (just splotches) while i get no detail in the actual bridge structure.
is this crappy photography or someother effect be it the cold, the film or the paranormal?
i only ask because all the images were like this, be it under, propper or over exposed.
thanks for any help
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This question deals with film so no PS advise on how to fix it.
I recently went to the UP ([SIZE=-1]Upper Peninsula of the state of michigan) which is connected to lower michigan by the mackinac (pronounced maciknaw) bridge which is the 3rd longest bridge in the world. anywho on the way back i shot a roll of film on the bridge, it was all lighted up pretty and the light from the city of mackinac was makeing cool shaddows on the low cloud cover.
well alas i sent my roll of 26 shots in and got 19 back. Being new to night film photography (ive dont quite a bit of night with my digital point and shoot) and being that my light meter doesnt work after a shutter speed of 1/4th of a second i extensively bracked my shot. i did full stop increments from 1 second to 60 second exposures at f/8. the 1, 2, and 4 second shots didnt work, the negatives are completely blank so the lab saved me the trouble and didnt print them. however all the shots i got back were pretty bad, not compositionally, but as far as color and detail none of them really worked.
I would like some help on solving the problem. obviously i dont want to waste entire rolls of film.
so here are the specs and an example picture. (this one turned out the best)
It was 10 degrees F / -12 degrees C which i shot these pictures using a tripod and a release cable. I used Fugi xtera 800 speed film (is this the problem?)
settings were f/8 and i believe this was a 32 second exposure.
this was done with a 80-200mm lens at 80mm.
what im most disappointed with is the color in the bridge. look at the reds and the greens. there seems to be a halo or just a smudge here.
also even in the under exposed pictures around 4-16 seconds, the colors of the bridge look the same (just splotches) while i get no detail in the actual bridge structure.
is this crappy photography or someother effect be it the cold, the film or the paranormal?
i only ask because all the images were like this, be it under, propper or over exposed.
thanks for any help
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