Happiness is...

[mgilbuena]

Souping Acros in Rodinal 1:50 after queuing rolls from over the past month, and seeing this straight out of the scanner without auto-adjust or sharpening:


M6TTL-Acros100Rodinal150002 by mgilbuena, on Flickr

Epson V500 @ 3200 dpi, 16-bit grayscale
Leica M6TTL, Fuji Acros 100 (branded Legacy Pro), expired.
Rodinal 1:50 for 9 minutes

I believe I used the Voigtlander 35mm Color Skopar @f/2.5, handheld @1/15 for this shot.

 

[Ron (Netherlands)]

..a warm gun...😛

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2Vdcv9Q_o

 

[Michalm]

I like the idea of the thread and the title photo a lot, congrat!

 

[Austerby]

How nice. Conversely, today I developed a couple of films I had lying around for a while and the one I've scanned so far is full of rubbish - what was I thinking of when I took those shots?!?

 

[John Bragg]

Tri-X and HC-110.

 

[kbg32]

Bubble blaster


Bubble Blaster by keithbgoldstein

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Souping Acros in Rodinal 1:50 after queuing rolls from over the past month, and seeing this straight out of the scanner without auto-adjust or sharpening:


M6TTL-Acros100Rodinal150002 by mgilbuena, on Flickr

Epson V500 @ 3200 dpi, 16-bit grayscale
Leica M6TTL, Fuji Acros 100 (branded Legacy Pro), expired.
Rodinal 1:50 for 9 minutes

I believe I used the Voigtlander 35mm Color Skopar @f/2.5, handheld @1/15 for this shot.

I don't get the bragging about using scans without any adjustments. Its not something to be proud of, and it shows in the photo, with its flat midtones and lack of deep blacks and bright whites. The photo is super cute, too bad you didn't care enough to finish it.

 

[f16sunshine]

I don't get the bragging about using scans without any adjustments. Its not something to be proud of, and it shows in the photo, with its flat midtones and lack of deep blacks and bright whites. The photo is super cute, too bad you didn't care enough to finish it.

Back to your trash can Oscar the grouch!

Happiness is about being happy! Not pleasing the critics!

 

[literiter]

Souping Acros in Rodinal 1:50 after queuing rolls from over the past month, and seeing this straight out of the scanner without auto-adjust or sharpening:

This is very nice. I'm not sure there would be anything I could do, or would want to do, to improve it.
It is not always necessary to post process the joy out of an image to get exactly what you want.

 

[mgilbuena]

I don't get the bragging about using scans without any adjustments. Its not something to be proud of, and it shows in the photo, with its flat midtones and lack of deep blacks and bright whites. The photo is super cute, too bad you didn't care enough to finish it.

Hi Chris,

I posted this as my scanner was whirling away on the other frames. The objective of this thread is not to display a finalized photo. It is the joy of finding a photograph taken months ago, rendered before my eyes for the very first time. It is that ah-ha moment; the first discovery of a moment forgotten.

This is that raw initial result after unrolling, shaking, washing and drying where we either curse, sigh, or smile. A tangible physical process that I love -- and occasionally hate.

 

[Bille]

and it shows in the photo, with its flat midtones and lack of deep blacks and bright whites.

Tone curve looks ok to me. However, depending on your browser, there may be a problem with the embedded "EPSON Gray Gamma 2.2" profile. The picture looks much flatter in Photoshop than it does in Chrome.

Color profiles aside, I like how the V500 smoothens film grain.

 

[Michael Markey]

This is very nice. I'm not sure there would be anything I could do, or would want to do, to improve it.
It is not always necessary to post process the joy out of an image to get exactly what you want.

I agree ... lovely shot.
I suspect that there may be other shots that may benefit from less post processing at times too.

 

[kbg32]

Hey gents! This thread is about happiness!

 

[charjohncarter]

Another form of happiness, besides getting a great shot like yours, is to have the film go on the reel with no problems.

 

[zuiko85]

As to the tones of that shot, well I only have a laptop and even a slight change in viewing angle changes the whole impression of the picture. That said, I was thinking perhaps that is the way the photographer remembered the light. Perhaps the light was really that soft and flat.

Almost forgot, I like the shot, nice quiet domestic scene.

 

[gsgary]

I just found this after reading this thread again made me happy
My best mate 2 hour stand developed in Rodinal