Josh66
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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Posting this here instead of one of the gallery threads since the picture is 'bad'.

2012022202 by J E, on Flickr
First off - I'm going to reshoot that. That (self portrait) was a 2 second exposure at f/8 with 400 ISO film.
The obvious stuff: Change of wardrobe, faster film, open up (aperture) if needed - don't really want to do that though.
Next time, I'll use 3200 ISO film, that's three more stops, getting the exposure time down to 1/4 second. I think that might be doable. I don't really want to open up much past f/8... I'd rather push the film to 6400 or 12800 before opening up... I plan on using Delta 3200, which can be pushed that far if needed.
Anything I'm not thinking of? I thought of trying to add a rim light or something, but I'm not sure if I can get the power low enough at those ISOs... I also have no experience at that, so I would likely have to bracket an entire roll (12 frames) to do that.
How do you meter rim light? Can I just put the flash behind me and face the flash instead of the camera when I take the meter reading?

2012022202 by J E, on Flickr
First off - I'm going to reshoot that. That (self portrait) was a 2 second exposure at f/8 with 400 ISO film.
The obvious stuff: Change of wardrobe, faster film, open up (aperture) if needed - don't really want to do that though.
Next time, I'll use 3200 ISO film, that's three more stops, getting the exposure time down to 1/4 second. I think that might be doable. I don't really want to open up much past f/8... I'd rather push the film to 6400 or 12800 before opening up... I plan on using Delta 3200, which can be pushed that far if needed.
Anything I'm not thinking of? I thought of trying to add a rim light or something, but I'm not sure if I can get the power low enough at those ISOs... I also have no experience at that, so I would likely have to bracket an entire roll (12 frames) to do that.
How do you meter rim light? Can I just put the flash behind me and face the flash instead of the camera when I take the meter reading?