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What I have found works well is to use Plus-X rated at EI 80 and develop
it in FX-37. I get good shadow separation that way. Francis A. Miniter Jan T wrote: I did some experementing lately in order to find a way to overcome the huge contrasts in night scenes. I underdevelopped the film by some 25% for this purpose and compensated for the loss of film speed by overexposing by abt. 2 stops. Have a look at the result at http://home.tiscali.be/jant/04090301_75dpi.jpg (or http://home.tiscali.be/jant/04090301_300dpi.jpg for larger image) Film was Tri-X Prof 320 in D-76 at IE 100 and -25% dev. time. Good luck! Jan schreef in bericht ... I am a student at Utah State University, and am doing a portfoloio on night photography. I have always been mezmerized by the bright lights against a black night sky, and being able to see what things are. I was interested in getting some ideas for good subjects for my photographs. I would also be grateful for any technical pointers on exposure times and printing, to come out with clean, detailed photographs. Thanks Curtis M Utah State University Logan Utah |
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wrote in message ... I am a student at Utah State University, and am doing a portfoloio on night photography. I have always been mezmerized by the bright lights against a black night sky, and being able to see what things are. I was interested in getting some ideas for good subjects for my photographs. I would also be grateful for any technical pointers on exposure times and printing, to come out with clean, detailed photographs. http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/moonlight.html |
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:03:40 +0100, "Jan T"
wrote: I did some experementing lately in order to find a way to overcome the huge contrasts in night scenes. I underdevelopped the film by some 25% for this purpose and compensated for the loss of film speed by overexposing by abt. 2 stops. Have a look at the result at http://home.tiscali.be/jant/04090301_75dpi.jpg (or http://home.tiscali.be/jant/04090301_300dpi.jpg for larger image) Film was Tri-X Prof 320 in D-76 at IE 100 and -25% dev. time. (snip) Was your example shot with a 35mm camera? Fred |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:28:23 -0800, David Nebenzahl
wrote: So far as exposure times go, any decent light meter ought to at least get you well within the ballpark. You do have a good tripod, don't you? With night photography, there are two big things that you have to concern yourself about that are different from most photography: Light levels are lower (duh), which will lead to long exposures and you need to worry about reciprocity failure. Contrast tends to be very high - often exceeding what the film is capable of handling even with compensation in how you develop it. The combination of these two things means that there will be parts of the image which are not exposed 'properly' things are going to be lost in shadow, and other things are going to be blown out. This makes it very important to really know before you press the shutter what you want your image to look like, and to figure the exposure accordingly. Matrix metering will probably not do the trick. - You will want to use a good spot meter, and spend some time calculating exactly what you want for an exposure. Night photography is a good example of how you are likely going to want to overexpose and underdevelop if working in B&W - If you haven't done a lot of testing, rate your film a stop slower than the mfr, and develop about 20% less time. This will help with the contrast. And shoot lots of film, take notes on what you are doing as you shoot, then decide what images you like, and refer to your notes to figure out how to do it again. |
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Fred,
I used a Mamiya C220 with 80mm 2.8 Jan "Fred" schreef in bericht ... On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:03:40 +0100, "Jan T" wrote: I did some experementing lately in order to find a way to overcome the huge contrasts in night scenes. I underdevelopped the film by some 25% for this purpose and compensated for the loss of film speed by overexposing by abt. 2 stops. Have a look at the result at http://home.tiscali.be/jant/04090301_75dpi.jpg (or http://home.tiscali.be/jant/04090301_300dpi.jpg for larger image) Film was Tri-X Prof 320 in D-76 at IE 100 and -25% dev. time. (snip) Was your example shot with a 35mm camera? Fred |
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