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Grain on Tri X - Shot on M7/ 35mm Summarit 2.4 Advice please


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If your other photos on this role are this dirty/dusty, I would take the negatives back to the developer/scanner and demand that they clean the negative and re-scan.  Although, what's weird here, is that the dust is black, which would be logical for a scan from a slide.  Dust on a negative scans as white. Anyone here have an idea how this could be? I'm curious.

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As others have said, the grain in the sky in the OP looks fine and not "heavy" at all. Look at these classic Ralph Gibson pictures in this NY Times article: Gibson used to overexpose Tri-X and overdevelop it in Rodinal, so that the shadows would go black.

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Respectfully, I believe he exposed normally and printed down or under-exposed and printed to higher contrast. A trivial point, certainly.

 

Gibson knew what he was doing and did it well. I regret selling his first editions. I do not understand his color work, but that is my shortcoming.

 

Thank you for bringing up his work.

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If that's what you believe, then you don't believe what Gibson himself writes about his own work method of that time in the Ralph Gibson chapter of his Darkroom: No.1 book published by his Lustrum Press, which presents the methods of 13 photographers. He writes, "Having learned from the lithographic process I now go directly to contrasty subject matter and expose for the narrow contrast ratio I desire. I overexpose and overdevelop and, in the process, pick up grain and contrast."

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Although the grain seems normal given what pico said, I do think that jpeg-scans from the drugstore often exaggerate the grain. I don’t think you’ll necessarly get this grain-impression that much if you’d print it wet.

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