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Printable View
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Darkroom print on ilford rc new. split contrast, dodge and burn selenium, bleach, agfa brown.
4x5 fp4 in pyro hd
linhof technika 4x5, 150mm lens.
Tree and Grasses, Long Island, New York
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4x5 Velvia
Shot with Agfa X-ray film
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Brook in the woods by T. Chabry, on Flickr
Referring back to the lovely shot by Lassethomas, yes, Porta 400 can respond well to warm settings like that. Ektar is better hue corrected overall, but does have the Achilles heel of cyan contamination of the blues, and of excessive blue response in open shadows. I've posted numerous times how that is best corrected at the time of the shot, rather than entering the bullring with it afterwards using software options. And yes, it can be predictably corrected. I don't do any kind of digital printing - pure optical workflow only - but have probably tamed those Ektar idiosyncrasies better than anyone else, not to perfection by any means (no film is perfect), but significantly. If there are magenta issues, that must be due to something odd about either the processing or scanning step; it isn't native to the film itself - perhaps digital overcompensating with respect to the cyan bias? Yet in this particular instance, Portra would be the preferred product anyway due to its wider exposure range. Really good example.