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UER Forum > Archived UE Photo Critiques > Film shots, give me your opinion. (Viewed 1651 times)
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Re: Film shots, give me your opinion.
<Reply # 20 on 12/18/2012 11:41 PM >
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Posted by Adv.Pack
Do the negatives look flat or just the prints?
You could have leaked light while developing.
I would just use a higher filter when printing.


As a full-time film user, it might be your scanning. The dynamic range of film (shades of gray in B&W) should exceed digital many times over. You should be able to see a smooth graduation from white (or near white if preferred), to black with no compression in between. Particularly in the grays and shadows, a moderate recent example:



Digital seems sometimes to compress the grays from 75% to total black, resulting in no details in the shadows. Similarly (unlike above at night) you should be able to get no blown highlights, washed out areas. The GT-R headlight trim looks a bit hot here for example.

The advice above about exposing for the shadows is spot on, from which with a properly developed neg (the easy part), you can then scan and manip to obtain the right 'development' of digital image, or real prints (the hard part). Work flow takes time, but when you've got it, you will be pleased and others will freak about the 'photograph', simply because it is filmy.

For further research, check out http://www.filmwasters.com, and those there will be more than helpful in detailed tips from negs, scanning, and printing. One of the mods there is used by Ilford for their print paper box artwork. He's that good. Enjoy regardless! Neko.

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