To all ye knowledgeable Black and White experts: After four years of fighting w ith my landscape negatives in the darkroom, trying for once to get the sky to re nder something other than Ilford MG-IV pearl white, I've recently converted my e nlarger to a diffusion type, and also learned the subtleties of N-1 and N-2 deve lopment. then, I jumped for joy when I finally got an Ansel Adams type sky, wit h help from the latter modification (and unfortunately, also with 10 minutes of backwrenching burning in), only to be deflated by watching a white marble build ing adjacent to the sky in the scene also turn grey from all the additional expo sure time. (if I'm not too critical, the picture still looks nice, but next time out, I want to do better.)
Can anyone relate to this problem? Help!! It's time to discuss filters for B&W film. I'm ashamed to say that I have not used any to date. I would like to fin ally be able to print a cityscape, landscape, or portrait(w/sky) worth giving as a gift, or hanging on the wall without reservation.
So, I'm about to invest in a dark yellow (15), a yellow green (xo), and a red 25 filter, and possibly a polarizer of circular or linear type?. Likely B+W or Hoy a. Any comments will help.
Large format is awesome, and so is the knowledge I have been getting from this s ite. Thanks again for your help. Andre
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