X-Pan Set

chris000

chris000

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Following a couple of recent threads on X-Pan photos I was inspired to start a gallery on my website showing a few of my own - link in my sig. below. here are 3 examples:

Arthur's Stone on The Gower in Wales

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The London Eye

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By the sea, Sandbanks, Dorset

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Chris, the tonality of your B&W XPAN shots are very nice - could you share abit of technical info on films & developers that you use, filters (if any), scanner used, etc.?

I still have no pictures from my Xpan yet, but plan to scan with my Minolta Dimage 5400.
 
sleepyhead said:
Chris, the tonality of your B&W XPAN shots are very nice - could you share abit of technical info on films & developers that you use, filters (if any), scanner used, etc.?

I still have no pictures from my Xpan yet, but plan to scan with my Minolta Dimage 5400.
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I'm happy to share, although I'm not very 'technical' I'm afraid;

FILM - The three showing in this thread, Arthur's Stone is on Tri-X, the other two are FP4. The film is all commercially processed through a local photo shop.

SHOOT - I only rarely use the auto settings, preferring to use a (very) cheap hand held meter. The 45mm lens has a centre filter attached and I normally use a Lee mid yellow filter if I want to boost the sky contrast a little.

SCAN - Epson V700 at maximum resolution, set for black and white negative and scanned as 16bit greyscale. I adjust the histogram to make the scan just very slightly flat in contrast.

PROCESS - Photoshop Elements 6, avoid cropping if possible, adjust levels, a little burning or dodging if necessary and convert to RGB so that I can add a little warmth. Judicious use of Unsharp Mask.

That's it, the rest of course is just pure genius ;) :D
 
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