Rob, it almost feels like you took two entirely different photos... they both have very different feels. The B&W one is a little stronger, more classic. Though the colour one portrays the process that you described really well, taking the photo in fleeting light, having only a small beam of it lighting your subject. It would be interesting to see if either could be edited to find a balance between the two...
Gary, cool shots with a lot of depth
The third one, the one with the branches, is my favourite
Rayyan, which part of the silk route were these shots taken in? The Silk Route is that extremely long trading route, right? Cool shots
I was scanning some film yesterday (as I'll be doing today), and wanted to try a new technique. I scanned them on my flatbed scanner without the film holder to get the film border. It's... kinda tacky. Though I just went with it. Don't think I'll be keeping this style, at least not with more serious shots. Scanning without the holder makes it hard to ensure that there is no dust on the negative or the glass... and that the negatives are in the right place of the scanning bed... the film also isn't in the optimal focal range of the scanner when it's lying flat on the scanning bed either, resulting in scans that COULD be sharper. It's just a huge hassle. Not that shots of Hillary aren't serious
but these were just test shots for a new camera (which I promptly sold and promptly regretted selling).
These were shot with the FED 3 and Canon 50/1.8 Serenar
I accidentally opened the film back mid-roll, forgetting there was film in here. Kinda cool