The beauty of a tree

[BKSPicture]

Technical info
Camera: Pentax Spotmatic SP II
Lens: Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestor 135mm f/2.8
Film: Rollei RPX 100
Scanner: Plustek OpticFilm 7600i
Place: Uddevalla / Sweden


Developed in D76 1+1 water, 20deg, 11min

 

[timor]

You gonna have to forgive me, but I think it didn't came out very well. It is hard to judge from this small picture. Maybe it is the scan, maybe the compression or maybe you were shooting 135 mm lens from hand or there was some movement in the leaves. In general my perception is of general softness. Well, it happens with film easy. I don't know Rollei RPX, but maybe for a picture so rich with detail it needs different, more acutance oriented developer, (maybe even D76 but 1+2) I would try Beutler or Thornton 2 bath.
There is also a problem with, I think, some overdevelopment. The leaves, maybe yellow, but oak leaves never get that bright, went to zone 9 and lost any detail and texture causing really high contrast and almost a graphical effect of the picture.
From composition point of view maybe would be it worth to include the whole tree silhouette in the frame, however that's only my opinion.

 

[BKSPicture]

You gonna have to forgive me, but I think it didn't came out very well. It is hard to judge from this small picture. Maybe it is the scan, maybe the compression or maybe you were shooting 135 mm lens from hand or there was some movement in the leaves. In general my perception is of general softness. Well, it happens with film easy. I don't know Rollei RPX, but maybe for a picture so rich with detail it needs different, more acutance oriented developer, (maybe even D76 but 1+2) I would try Beutler or Thornton 2 bath.
There is also a problem with, I think, some overdevelopment. The leaves, maybe yellow, but oak leaves never get that bright, went to zone 9 and lost any detail and texture causing really high contrast and almost a graphical effect of the picture.
From composition point of view maybe would be it worth to include the whole tree silhouette in the frame, however that's only my opinion.

Well that was a lot and always appreciated, thanks
The picture must be extreamly soft if you can see it on a image that are under 0,3 megapixels big.
Shot is taken wide open and the focus is set on the trunk and most of the leafs are out of focus.
Exposure is also set after the trunk so thats why the leafs are so bright.

Have not tested much more then the standard developer bath but might give the others a try in the future.

You can download a hires copy of this picture on my homepage.

 

[timor]

Hi. How I said, I was judging from what I can see on the comp screen. I know it is not a LF so it is hard to develop accordingly to exposure, but systematic "expose for shadows - develop for lights" together with 2 bath dev may mitigate high contrast conditions. Did you ever used glycin based developer ?
OK. I got the big version and sharpness is better, by much, however shallow DoF is more accentuated.