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How about more and more fun with Leica M? (Film)

emmawest72

New member
Helen,
I really like the tonality in your shots specially when you apply your personal rodinal mix! it gives them en edge with strong blacks.


A color pic of mine ( m4-2/35mm/ kodak slide film)

 

helenhill

Senior Member
Fab Bill...

Love the third Shot
Picture postcard Lovely...Congrats on Developing :clap:
I think I'm going to buy, try /was it D76 ?
 

helenhill

Senior Member
emmawest72; said:
Helen,
I really like the tonality in your shots specially when you apply your personal rodinal mix! it gives them en edge with strong blacks.
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Charming of YOU to say...Thank You William
Tres Coool the way the Floor and Wall Floats around Your Wife

I don't know much about Color Film...What do YOU recommend ? :)


[QUOTE="wjlapier, post: 84128, member: 1772"]A few from my first time developing B+W. M3 with Nikkor 5cm/2[/QUOTE]
Love the Simplicity & Composition of the Third shot :clap:
Picture Postcard Lovely...Congrats on Developing
I think I'n going to try/buy -Was it D76 you had mentioned ?
 

wjlapier

Member
Fab Bill...

Love the third Shot
Picture postcard Lovely...Congrats on Developing :clap:
I think I'm going to buy, try /was it D76 ?
Thank you Helen. I will print a couple to see how they look on paper, but regardless, it was a great experience. I'm anxious to go out and shoot some more just to develop again :)

D76 it was.
 

emmawest72

New member
Helen,

I used to shoot a lot of slide film such as fuji provia and kodachrome. Nowdays I mostly use C41 films like kodak portra 160/400 vc or the fuji 160s / 400h as prefer the colors compared to the more contrasty slide films. Will you be scanning the film?

Back to the good ol' Tri-X with m4-2 and 35mm...

 

wjlapier

Member
Helen,

I used to shoot a lot of slide film such as fuji provia and kodachrome. Nowdays I mostly use C41 films like kodak portra 160/400 vc or the fuji 160s / 400h as prefer the colors compared to the more contrasty slide films. Will you be scanning the film?

Back to the good ol' Tri-X with m4-2 and 35mm...

William, I like this picture. Does tri-x scan like this, or did you do some tweaking post?
 

emmawest72

New member
@wjlapier:
Hi,
I always scan my bw very flat in order to keep as much info as possible. I then do the same work in PS as I would do in the darkroom i.e. grading, dodging, burning,etc. I use vuescan as my scanning soft and though it's bit complicated it gives me the flat neg I want. Hope this helps.
Cheers
 

wjlapier

Member
@wjlapier:
Hi,
I always scan my bw very flat in order to keep as much info as possible. I then do the same work in PS as I would do in the darkroom i.e. grading, dodging, burning,etc. I use vuescan as my scanning soft and though it's bit complicated it gives me the flat neg I want. Hope this helps.
Cheers
That does help. I use Vuescan too and scanned mine as neutral as possible. I then did my post in PS, but I need to know more about some of those terms you used for darkroom work. I'll dig for it on the net.

Thanx alot.
 
N

nei1

Guest
M4-2 with a 50mm summicron











tri-x at 1250asa scanned witha minolta 5400 cold cathode(best for black and white):cool::D
 
N

nei1

Guest
Nice shot Helen,theres a strong relationship between the two foreground figures.Well done on the analogue decision,it will pay off in leaps and bounds as you go on.Good idea to have a small digital carry around just to take notes.All the best,.......Neil.
 

helenhill

Senior Member
Thank You Neil

What I am sooo Pleased about
is the shot above /man w/Cane
NO PP ..... straight from the neg /scan
and I LOVE IT /the B&W tonality
Best-
 

Don Hutton

Member
What always amazes me with B&W film is how you can hold detail in highlights that look so white as to be (almost) blown and in shadows that are virtually black. I don't see that with digital.

Woody
That's what the shoulder and toe of B&W film is all about... The only digital camera I own which seems to have a "workable" toe and shoulder is a Sigma DP1... It's not film like, but it's closer than others I have tried or use.
 
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