I took this last night. It's a church around the corner from me that looks pretty cool at night, but I have yet to capture it the way my mind's eye is seeing it. I'm having trouble with the heavily lit doors, and the not-in-light steeple. I'm also having difficulty getting focus at night (I use an Agfa 8x loupe). I tried to do some front and rear tilt, and thought I got rid of the tilted perspective, but I missed that as well.
Shot on Kodak Super-XX, EI ~160, 10'30" @ f/8. Developed in D-76 for 9 minutes, 5 agitations every 30 seconds.
The Negative:
Unedited Positive:
My rough edited positive
Would a grad ND help with this shot? How would I deal with metering and reciprocity failure if I use an ND? Spot-metering just above the left door, where it was sort of middle of the road between light and dark, my exposure was 60 seconds. Should I have metered a different area? I haven't done a multiple spot metered average before, so wasn't going to try that.
I tried to use the camera movements to get the doors and the steeple in focus, as well as correct for the perspective distortion. It's obvious I missed both. How do you guys that shoot at night see a dim subject on the GG well enough to hit focus?
Overall, I was pleased, as the exposure time and my developing seem pretty close to spot on, but the final left me something to be desired.
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