The 4x4 Baby Rollei Club

A couple more scanned:

The Front Yard
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The Kitchen Sink.... literally
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Very fine grain. 🙂

But they look two stop underexposed. I have looked at other examples taken with Rollei 80s, and it seems that 25 ASA works better with this film in normal developers. You say that you have underexposed a lot lately. Do you know why?
 
No, I don't know why really. Mostly I'm using the Sunny-16 without the meter, and I'm sure that has at least 75% to do with it. Another major factor is that I'm shooting in snow, and this is a first for me. I'm starting out my metering from F/22 instead of F/16 for a snow-less picture. That explains one stop right there.

These last 3 shots came out pretty straight forward like they should have. And that guitar shot at the first, that came out the way I knew it would, I wanted that one dark. Maybe I'm not doing too bad......
 
Jan, I too like the faucet picture a lot.

Underexposed, overexposed - who care's? As long the picture depicts the vision of the photographer, not necessarily documents the exact conditions as they were, then the picture is correctly exposed.
 
Ezzie said:
Underexposed, overexposed - who care's? As long the picture depicts the vision of the photographer, not necessarily documents the exact conditions as they were, then the picture is correctly exposed.
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Excellent point, though it's easy to forget when one is striving for the "perfect picture". I looked at a couple of "perfect photos" on the internet a couple of days ago. Extremely well composed, depth of field from the foreground to infinity, and a red filter made the sky very dark and the clouds white. They were very good, but boring. Often, a small "mistake" like camera shake or non-harmonious composition can make the result more interesting.
 
I couldn't agree more. I still sin in this respect myself, but I too feel emotionally unengaged by this new wave of super-realistic images that for that very reason seem unreal. Too clean, too polished and lifeless as a result. I try, though probably without too much luck, to avoid falling into this trap myself. As you say, a slight imperfection, approach the subject matter from a new angle, break a composition rule or two, focus on the not so evident points of interest, over or underexpose to create an effect, etc, all can add interest, if done well. Thats why I like a larger percentage of the work presented here than on photo sharing communities (though I do post there too), RFF'ers are a breed apart.
 
Thanks guys.

I do agree, too much perfection is overkill.

I have two more rolls for the 4x4 and I'm saving those for a couple weeks when I have a model shoot to do. We'll see what kind of imperfections I can get in those shots ;-)
 
Pirate - I like the snow pictures, reminds me of my wife's family farm in Ohio. BTW, I found the instruction book for the black baby Rollei 4x4. I thought I had some 4x4 slide mounts somewhere - they will probably surface some year when I get to the bottom of stuff in a closet!
 
I loaded my "Sports" Rolleiflex 4x4 with Efke R100 last friday and have taken a couple of shots that I hope will turn out great. A large abandoned mine headframe and ore sorting works. They have stood there for decades but the mining company will tear them down this spring. It will take a while before I have finished the roll and made prints.
 
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