Yeah, great job, Dave!
I just took some portraits using the following setup:
The prints are currently drying.
Yeah, great job, Dave!
I just took some portraits using the following setup:
The prints are currently drying.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Takes me back to my Boy Scout days. I’d sneak around at night, open a tent flap and say “hey look at this” then I’d short the terminals on my flash attachment off the Argus with a knife blade. Everyone thought it was funny, course when your 12 in the 60’s everything was funny.Originally Posted by Peter De Smidt
You can't teach an old dog new tech's!
Both of these were with a yellow/green filter. I tried two shots with no filter, stopping down the lens by one stop, but the resulting prints were too contrasty for my scanner.
Last edited by Peter De Smidt; 19-May-2024 at 10:51.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Nice!
Peter, wonderful portraits! Great work!
Kino
We never have time to do it right, but we always seem to have time to do it again...
Thanks for the positive feedback everyone, appreciated.
Now THAT'S a camera! Great portraits too.Yeah, great job, Dave!
I just took some portraits using the following setup:
The prints are currently drying.
Thanks, Guys. I'm pretty happy for a first attempt. Being able to process everything quickly, as well as scan on a regular scanner, is a big plus. I'll try some film soon, but I don't currently have a way to scan it.
This one was too contrasty for my scanner:
Last edited by Peter De Smidt; 19-May-2024 at 11:23.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
You could try pre-flashing the paper ( and still using the yellow filter ) . It might tame the contrast even more.
Although I like the 1st one above and if it was me, I'd be happy with that!
Thanks, Ned. The prints with the yellow/green filter were fine. The ones with no filter (and the lens closed down a stop), were too contrasty to scan. I only tried because an extra stop of depth-of-field would be welcome. I could try again with less exposure.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Pre-flashing might possibly buy you the extra stop for more DOF! It's pretty close to making the paper 1 stop faster.
It takes a bit of testing. Make test strips and choose the longest pre-flash that is still paper white after developing.
I use a variation: most paper these days has a mixture of 2 or 3 emulsions that have different spectral sensitivities. I like to pre-flash through a green filter... so that the green-sensitive part of the paper gets pre-exposure, but the blue-sensitive part still has some "lag time" before it starts to do anything. This is oversimplifying, but it's like giving the "low contrast" part of the emulsion a head start.
But again, I like what you did already!
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