Some fun with film - candid snaps

[jake337]

1 - I just really liked the light

2

3

4

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[timor]

pictures are fine...but how much did you pushed that poor film ?

 

[amolitor]

The first one is quite lovely. You were right about the light.

The second has real potential, but let the blacks be black - it IS an inky flat thing with patches of light, and it'll be lovely if you let the blacks be black.

The last two don't strike me as much, although I do love the dog's expression in the last one!

 

[terri]

The first and last are the strongest of the set, for me. The lighting is lovely in both! There IS a lot of grain; which doesn't bother me at all in three of the four, but the second one has issues. Are these scanned prints or negatives? #2 is quite dirty, but as amolitor suggests, has potential to be a very striking image if the development were controlled better. Start by more light on the dog's face, burn in some more on the highlighted fur, and let the rest be higher contrast.

 

[jake337]

pictures are fine...but how much did you pushed that poor film ?

Sadly I still do not have my own darkroom.

i just set my FM2 to 3200 and metering accordingly. Maybe I underexposed a bit on that roll.

 

[jake337]

The first one is quite lovely. You were right about the light.

The second has real potential, but let the blacks be black - it IS an inky flat thing with patches of light, and it'll be lovely if you let the blacks be black.

The last two don't strike me as much, although I do love the dog's expression in the last one!

I'm guessing it is because of a misjudgment on my part. I brought the blacks down in post too.

 

[jake337]

The first and last are the strongest of the set, for me. The lighting is lovely in both! There IS a lot of grain; which doesn't bother me at all in three of the four, but the second one has issues. Are these scanned prints or negatives? #2 is quite dirty, but as amolitor suggests, has potential to be a very striking image if the development were controlled better. Start by more light on the dog's face, burn in some more on the highlighted fur, and let the rest be higher contrast.

Negative scans. Just the basic 5 dollar disk from National Camera Exchange.


I really need to get into my own darkroom.

 

[timor]

pictures are fine...but how much did you pushed that poor film ?

Sadly I still do not have my own darkroom.

You don't need darkroom to develop own film. Any room you can black out for 5 min to put film into the tank will do and the rest in the kitchen. (I am doing it in the laundry room, washing machine is my table. )

 

[jake337]

You don't need darkroom to develop own film. Any room you can black out for 5 min to put film into the tank will do and the rest in the kitchen. (I am doing it in the laundry room, washing machine is my table. )

Yeah. I mean all the equipment/chemicals needed.

 

[timor]

You don't need darkroom to develop own film. Any room you can black out for 5 min to put film into the tank will do and the rest in the kitchen. (I am doing it in the laundry room, washing machine is my table. )

Yeah. I mean all the equipment/chemicals needed.

For b&w is not a big deal. The only problem I see is a thermometer, not its availability but quality in calibration so 20C is close to 20C and not 17 or 23. :sillysmi: