Photos with FED 5B and Industar 61 LD

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spiderfrank

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the wall

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old bike

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the window
(do you like this? For me it's "almost" good, but it lacks something...)

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the cliff

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looking at the sea

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scenic viewpoint

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the cross

here, during the I world war (May 1917), the english ship Transylvania was attached and destroyed by a German submarine. It was a civil ship used as a troop carrier, directed in Africa. More 400 people died...
 
Very nice shots!

The window shot lacks contrast IMHO, it's a bit too flat for my taste (but I also see the limitations of my LCD monitor there). Similarly the scenic viewpoint shot could profit from having blacks that are a little bit blacker 🙂
 
Those are nice pictures, with great shades of grey, regardless of the gear used.

BTW, the contrast needs to be enhanced on "the window" and "scenic viewpoint", as stated by rxmd, and some pictures ("scenic viewpoint" again, and "the cross") seem to suffer from a too strong noise reduction effect.
 
ok... Now I like you!

rxmd, your monitor is ok, there is a big lack of contrast in "the window", I tried to correct it in PP, nut the resalt was to have the outside behind the window blown up and completely white... In scenic viewpoint my problem is the sky, that become too white increasing contrast, and in the cross, increasing contrast close the shadows on the trees... And about the noise reduction, I used Noiseware, next time I'll try not to completely eliminate tha grain of the film.
Ok, next days I'll try to re-work on the contrast... ;-)

Thank you for your tips!

Ciao
Franco
ps: sorry for my poor English
 
Hi Franco,
spiderfrank said:
rxmd, your monitor is ok, there is a big lack of contrast in "the window", I tried to correct it in PP, nut the resalt was to have the outside behind the window blown up and completely white... In scenic viewpoint my problem is the sky, that become too white increasing contrast, and in the cross, increasing contrast close the shadows on the trees...
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If you do that in software, you might want to use a program that allows you to adjust contrast not by using a contrast slider, but by setting the black and white points of the picture separately in a histogram view, like Photoshop's "Levels/Curves" feature. I am sure that free software like GIMP offers something similar.

If you want to have grainless pictures, instead of noise reduction in software just use a film with finer grain (seriously), like Delta 100 or Pan F. It also helps to do B&W processing yourself; if you just hand pictures to a lab they use whatever developer they have in their machine and you don't get any control over the result.

Philipp
 
I'm not "strong" with PP (I usually make colour slides...), but I have Gimp and Photoshop 7... I'll try to use the curves for those pictures!
The film is Kodak bw400cn because the shop can process it in few minutes (I wanted to know if the Fed was correctly working)... I'm not able to process film myself... :-(

Franco
 
spider, as rxmd said, use the curves and/or levels 🙂

Done in 5 minutes :
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And live with the grain (you'll see you'll love it. The grain from an HP5+ or a tri-x is not the same as the grain from BW400CN.) Use lower ISO if you want less contrast and less grain.

BTW, you don't need much stuff or much place to process films yourself 😉
 
spiderfrank said:
I'm not able to process film myself... :-(
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That's actually quite easy and very rewarding.

You need a tank and a couple of reels, chemicals, and small stuff like a funnel, a thermometer, a couple of measuring cups. Not much investment, and a great way to learn a lot about photography and spend a lot of time trying out different films and developers. And if you want to scan things a dedicated used film scanner costs 50 € 🙂

Philipp
 
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