The most forgiving system...

[Juan Valdenebro]

Although precise development for the kind of light on every scene is the best way to get great negatives for wet printing, I wanted to test how well mixing scenes for the same development in a single roll could be done...

It's amazing how permissive shooting B&W film and scanning are! These frames are the result of a 4-stops bracketing, with autolevels after scanning. I did include whites in all of them, to see how to expose depending on harsh or soft light... Differences on negatives, relevant for wet printing, become almost nothing into a system that's as forgiving as anyone could dream of...

Everything works for scanning, or everything is usable, or kind of...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40894234@N07/6263889931/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Cheers,

Juan

 

[oftheherd]

What you show looks very similar. I was never a great printer, but I always thought the closer to "proper" exposure I got, the easier it was to get what I wanted. And that it looked a little better as well. But like I said, I was never a great printer so maybe I just wasn't doing things right to begin with.

But I like what you show.

 

[Moriturii]

Which film and which developer is this?

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Neopan400 & Rodinal... I used, for all scenes in the same roll, my development time for soft light at 400, and I was expecting too contrasty sunny scenes because of that, but it didn't happen...

Cheers,

Juan