*blush*
Reid
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I see you used VC paper there, Reid All the grass looks totally flat yet the woman and blue jeans particularly are ultra-high contrast.
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Yep, that's what I use. Keep in mind the scan doesn't do the contact print justice. On the original she's even more blown out!
Reid
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjbuzzclick/
Went camping with friends and their niece last weekend near Idaho City. Negs are 8X10 Arista.EDU Ultra VC RC, and were shot through a #11 yellow filter. For each image there is a raw scan of the neg followed by a horizontally flipped, tones reversed positive with minor adjustments to brightness and contrast. I also shot each of these with double the exposure noted, because the more strongly exposed negs give better prints even though they scan poorly on my cheap flatbed scanner. Lens used was an early Wollensak Velostigmat series I f6.8 (Royal Anastigmat) in a brass Wollensak double piston Automatic shutter. Recently bought this on Ebay.
First image was exposed 1 sec @ f32. There was some motion blurring in the tree tops. In the neg scan, there are some faint vertical stripes on the right side. These aren't on the neg. I think they're scanning artifacts coming from my cheap scanner. It also appears the bellows are cutting into the image area when I use some front rise in portrait orientation. They do sag a bit. I need to find something to shove between the bellows and the bed to reduce the sag in the middle.
Second one was in the shade, exposed 1 sec @ f8. They held still like champs!
Great sumbmissions! Loved all of them! :-D
Would it be possible, in the absence of a darkroom, to pre-flash in camera?
Is there a way of determining the absolute measure of light required to soften the contrast and then correlate that to an exposure?
Jon
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