Young Love

[sleist]

C&C appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Ronpbecker]

Love the b&w on this shot - the lines (in the grass?) on the bottom left are distracting - maybe a tighter crop?

 

[Derrel]

It seems excessively contrasty to me...no detail in the boy's face, no detail in the side of the restroom building, nor in a lot of places. That curb-linbe, to the right of center...leads the eye straight back and out of the foreground to a small, visually unrewarding "small" scene. This looks like a typical 1980's university campus quadrangle shot, done on Plus-X and a 24mm lens....I dunno...it has a tiny bit of a pseudo-nostalgic feeling to it, but the compositon on it seems fractured. The shirtless guy on the left...his body position just screams "Frisbeee!". I dunno...maybe in 100 years this will be "an historical look at spring, 2013." But today...it just doesn't hold my interest, and in fact, I do not really want to or wish, look at this scene. In many ways, this scene is everything that';s wrong with the 24mm angle of view and focal length: large-ish foreground, tapering off to teensy-tiny background, and FAST.

 

[FanBoy]

A turn of the cheek and a kiss on the lips would have been true young love.

 

[sleist]

Love the b&w on this shot - the lines (in the grass?) on the bottom left are distracting - maybe a tighter crop?

It's lens flare. I thought about removing it, but I decided it added something so I left it in.
Another shot from the hip.

They look so "desperate". The writing is on the wall ...

Thanks for commenting. Appreciate it.

 

[sleist]

It seems excessively contrasty to me...no detail in the boy's face, no detail in the side of the restroom building, nor in a lot of places. That curb-linbe, to the right of center...leads the eye straight back and out of the foreground to a small, visually unrewarding "small" scene. This looks like a typical 1980's university campus quadrangle shot, done on Plus-X and a 24mm lens....I dunno...it has a tiny bit of a pseudo-nostalgic feeling to it, but the compositon on it seems fractured. The shirtless guy on the left...his body position just screams "Frisbeee!". I dunno...maybe in 100 years this will be "an historical look at spring, 2013." But today...it just doesn't hold my interest, and in fact, I do not really want to or wish, look at this scene. In many ways, this scene is everything that';s wrong with the 24mm angle of view and focal length: large-ish foreground, tapering off to teensy-tiny background, and FAST.

The title is sarcastic. The location is Boston Common. The focal length is 11mm on DX so an equivalent angle of view of 16mm. The 4:3 crop might make it look more like 24mm so I'll give you that.

All the shots I posted today were an experiment with a custom monochrome picture control setting and are straight out of camera with the exception of cropping and borders. Your comment regarding the B&W "conversion" is helpful. Normally I use Silver Efex Pro and was wondering how B&W straight out of the camera might work. Thanks for the comments!

 

[Derrel]

The B&W "look" you have looks a lot like Plus-X Pan printed on Polycontrast Rapid RC paper at like grade 4.5. A very cold-tone B&W look with deep,deep,deep blacks.

 

[sleist]

The B&W "look" you have looks a lot like Plus-X Pan printed on Polycontrast Rapid RC paper at like grade 4.5. A very cold-tone B&W look with deep,deep,deep blacks.

I set ADL to low to try and increase dynamic range (I normally avoid ADL like the plague) and it really had huge variations in effectiveness.
The UWA lens and the very bright sun probably didn't help much.
I don't know sh*t about film, but I get the gist of your comment.

Thanks.