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Summer holidays, so it's mostly family pics ... Up The Irons

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FM2 and Portra 400

 

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Rovinj again:

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M4-P - Cron 35 - Agfa CT 100 Precisa

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Bled - Slovenia 

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Same setup

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Munich Olympic Park

Franka Solida II, HP5 @ 200 ASA, Moersch Eco

 

 

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On 8/16/2019 at 1:31 PM, Sparkassenkunde said:

I'm going back to this picture ever again, as I love the colors so much. It think it deserves a nice place on a wall!

Thank you for this kind feedback! I am happy that it came out this way. I took my chances as this unknown girl posed for her girlfriend and fired a quick shot. 

Am I the only one missing some grain in here? I think there could be much more detail, esp. in the sand, but also in the water. Interesting location, by the way. I don't think that I would be brave enough to go for a swim there...

Thanks, you have now got me thinking about a large print!

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No Lifeguard on Duty
M-A APO 50 & Thambar-M CS f/6.3  ADOX Color Implosion

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Flashback - April 2019:

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Ricoh GR1 - Agfa CT 100 Precisa

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Also from this trip:

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M3 - Cron 50 DR - Agfa CT 100 Precisa

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Action shot from the Moviepark Potsdam Babelsberg, next to the Studio Babelsberg, origin of some iconic german movies and many international productions lately. This scene is from a daily stunt show in the amusement park:

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Ricoh GR1 - Agfa Ct 100 Precisa - two exposures merged in Lightroom

 

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3 hours ago, adan said:

Kodak TMax 400, EI 400, incident meter for "open shade" subjects, Mamiya 6, 50mm Sekor. DD-X at 15% (1 minute) less than Ilford's recommended time, Ilford agitation (once per minute). No dodging or burning.

Ilford DD-X 1:4 does its thing. Full ISO (shdow detail), controlled highlights in a very high-contrast scene with contrasty lens. Glaring Colorado midday sun, car chrome, open shade, deep shade, black-on-black railings.

(Incidentally, Kodak TMax (not RS) developer 1:4 was similar but not identical - a tad more grain and acutance, a tad more shadow density, but stiffer highlights. May come closer using EI 500, at least with my Sekonic. Or maybe just needs 15% less time than "box", as with DD-X.)

Understand my goal here. I want shadows that don't clip to "film-base+fog" in more than 0.5% of the image area, and in the black borders, which really are "unexposed" FB+F density. ;) I.E. real ISO 400 shadow density. Yet also retain separable, recoverable highlights right up to specular sun reflections.

My Zeiss/Hassy C lenses could do that using HC-110, but with the higher-contrast Sekors, HC-110 with TMax 400 produces too many empty clipped shadows at 400, and metering at 250 pushes highlights too high onto the shoulder (crushed separation of delicate near-whites) even with reduced developing time.

Short version - DD-X (and TMax dev.) really do pull more shadow detail out of a scene (better effective ISO - "expose for the shadows"), and DD-X may be "prettier" (more "liquid" or "silvery") and hold the highlights better as well ("develop for the highlights"). Zone Systems in a bottle.

very nice, Adan.  I really appreciate the technical background.  But I am still distracted by the hot spot to the right of her hip and back.  It looks like the sidewalk EV is zone 9.5  I would be more impressed with the film if the texture of the sidewalk looked like texture from a sidewalk.  

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4 hours ago, A miller said:

very nice, Adan.  I really appreciate the technical background.  But I am still distracted by the hot spot to the right of her hip and back.  It looks like the sidewalk EV is zone 9.5  I would be more impressed with the film if the texture of the sidewalk looked like texture from a sidewalk.  

Operator error - here's that area reprocessed (same neg, same scan). It's beyond the DoF, so not much texture - but more tone and separation is in the film than shown in the first version.

But no, TMax 400, even in DD-X,  won't ever be FP4 or Tri-X - on the other hand, FP4 won't ever be ISO 400 and Tri-X won't be as grainless. ;)

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Pico - "dew claws"? Any relation to Sandy Claws?

 

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