Question: Is this the glow?

This is a shot of my daughter from this past weekend. M6ttl 50/2

Summicron (4th gen.), Tri-X in D76(1:1). I shot this into the light

and exposed via incident meter for the rooms interior light. At

about 1/125 f/2-2.5 or so.

 

Is this an example of the glow in the reflections?

 

Thanks, Erik.<div></div>

Can't help but answer a question c a question- have you seen other systems that could have responded to this lighting situation as effectively? You've got a great picture, full of a sense of wonder.

I don't think so. I think it's the quality of the light more than anything else. The light is very good, and so is the picture, but glow is something else, in my mind.

Never mind all that 'glowing tosh'! I want to know what sort of Hi-fi you have hanging off that rather capable looking loudspeaker in the corner?

 

Oh yeah, nice baby too.

I make no aesthetic claims regarding this shot, but just to illustrate, here is an example of what I've always perceived "glow" to be. Could just be light falloff. Very subjective, this thing, much like boke.<div></div>

<p align="center"><img border="0" src="http://64.176.135.74/girl-glow.jpg" width="379" height="597"></p>

<p>first and foremost, no scanned image -- no matter how great a scanner -- can accurately depict "glow" like a

good fiber print. the best way i can think to describe glow is as a soft

"glowing" light that seems to jump off a print. such that it almost

calms the eyes as if the print is actually emitting its own illumination. while

the language used to describe glow may be subjective, you know a print that

glows when you see it. the above print is one that, in my view, really has that

glow quality to it. that all being said, the print glows, the scan shows some

glow but not even comparable to the actual print. </p>

 

<p>i recall there being some discussion on the topic of glow which seemed to

spark some debate. im sure that a simple search on photo.net will turn it up. additionally,

i remember there being mention of an article at another site that talked about

how to achieve glow in a print. </p>

Mark what film and developer was used in the above image. The tones are beautiful.

It's flare - largley unavoidable when you have very bright areas of light in a scene. Any dirt, scratches, smears or coating defects will increase it. Nice though in this example!

This could be a sample of 'glow' Summilux 50/1.4 at f1.4.

Hey Sam,<BR>

Glad you like it :-) I just check the negative and to my surprise it was TMY or T-max 400 (not a big fan). As far as developer, I can�t say for sure. This was taken at about the time when I switched over from T-max liquid to X-tol. It was also around the same time I stopped using TMY and moved to Tri-X and HP5 Plus. It was either tmax developed in tmax (gasp) 2:8 I think, or tmax in xtol 1:1. Heard exciting things about two bath developer, been meaning to try that for the longest time�. On the side, it was printed on Agfa 111c developed in Agfa neutol WA. Anyway, hope this helps.

I think this beautiful picture by Andrew Lee has the glow factor in it too?

http://www.photo.net/photo/1395992

Hmm, has anyone else noticed that "glowy" pictures often seem to be taken with Tri-x film, and usually developed in D-76? Maybe I'm just imagining things, but it seems this combination does something special to the light it captures.

<P>First time I've posted a photo to photo.net.

 

<p>When I think of glow, there are a couple of photos that come to mind. This is one of them.

 

<P>This was taken in a cafe in Germany, on the trip where we told her parents that they were going by grandparents by Christmas. She is about 10 weeks pregnant with our first child. It was taken one year ago this month.

 

<P>I don't know whether it meets the photography definition of glowing... but I can assure you that she was glowing in person!<div></div>

Now I know what glow is. It's like pornography. You can't say what it is, but everyone is supposed to know when they see it. Some nice photographs here; great drawing with light.

I get "glow" with several different films, and I don't use TriX or D76. It's not simply a film thing.<P>

<img src="http://mikedixonphotography.com/livbw07.jpg">

RE:Joakim Gleisner

 

It's mostly the lens (or filtering). But I do see some special voodoo when I shoot my 50 DR with Plus-X and D76. I'm eager to try some EFKE stock. Supposedly it has a very long tonal scale. I have been told that the lack of anti-halation backing on early filmstocks contributed a certain amount of glow.

 

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Mike and Mark,

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looking at the pictures it seems to me that the glow is coming from the subjects ;-)