Taking it to the zoo

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Taking my new M6 with 90mm Elmarit (both second hand) to the zoo and trying to get the hang of it. The film is by Fuji (S-400). Absolutely no PP besides the obvious cropping and some rescaling for constant pic size.

 

Comments welcome; thanks in advance.

[stuny]

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1 & 2 have great potential (subject, composition, detail) but I feel they need some post processing for exposure correction to realize that potential, such as this:

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#1 is my favorite. Hope you don't mind, here's my version:

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... great potential (subject, composition, detail) but I feel they need some post processing for exposure correction to realize that potential, such as this:

 

Stuart - Thank you for your kind words. That's high praise, coming from you.

 

I'm altogether new to the M and its lenses. What's puzzling me is the consistently low contrast I am getting, both on prints and in digitized images. I let the lab digitize my pics, but I get the same flat results from two independent labs.

 

The M6's meter gives the same readouts as the Lunasix and the Sekonic, within half a stop, and the Lunasix has just been adjusted. So I don't think the exposure is the problem.

 

#1 is my favorite. Hope you don't mind, here's my version:

 

vdb - Thank you for your suggestion. I still like the coloured version better. To me, it is faintly suggestive of the sepia toning they used to apply around the beginning of the last century. Yours reminds me of the quality of magazine prints in the mid-thirties, possibly because of the apparent loss of detail when re-scaling.