Post your low light / fast film WET PRINTS

[Juan Valdenebro]

Girl in church:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40894234@N07/4528669840/


Inside a dark church, Sunday Mass... Ilford multigrade with filter 2. No dodging or burning so real film behaviour can be appreciated... (Of course candles could be easily burnt to show flames... If you ask me, I don't care...) No digital levels or any contrast adjustment after scanning: the print looks just like the file... TMax3200, Nokton 40mm & Bessa R4M, 1/60 at f/1.4

 

[rbiemer]

Juan,
I really like the photo and will ask to see it if I'm ever in Barcelona.
But I'm not convinced that I can really tell about film behaviour from a digital file.
I am NOT meaning to belittle you or this photograph, I just think that after one has put a film image through the process so that I can see it across the world here in Cortland, it is not the same as it is on your wall.
I am truly appreciative of the technology that we use but there are too many layers between me and that photograph for me to think I have seen it. I have seen a pretty good approximation of it--good enough that I can decide that I like it and think I would like it better in person--but an approximation none the less.
Was the girl texting God?
Rob

 

[sepiareverb]

MP / 28/2.0 ASPH / Neopan 1600 in Rodinal 1:25

Scan of a quick 8x10 proof print on Ilford Multigrade IV in Sprint Quicksilver 1:9. Likely grade 2 1/2. I cleaned up some dust from the surface of the print in PS. A papered-over shop window at night on the infamous Church Street in Burlington.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Juan,
I really like the photo and will ask to see it if I'm ever in Barcelona.
But I'm not convinced that I can really tell about film behaviour from a digital file.
I am NOT meaning to belittle you or this photograph, I just think that after one has put a film image through the process so that I can see it across the world here in Cortland, it is not the same as it is on your wall.
I am truly appreciative of the technology that we use but there are too many layers between me and that photograph for me to think I have seen it. I have seen a pretty good approximation of it--good enough that I can decide that I like it and think I would like it better in person--but an approximation none the less.
Was the girl texting God?
Rob

Dear Rob,


It will be a pleasure showing you the print here... Do you ever scan prints? It's an incredibly easy and accurate process: it's not like scanning a negative... When you scan printed material, the resulting file is perfect... More in this case, where the print already had pure black and pure white.


About the girl texting God, I'm not sure... But I do think it was me who God was texting by taking me to that church to get the shot.


Cheers,


Juan