w/wn Getting the light & process right

Leica Ia - handheld - B&W from colour.<div></div>

Late afternoon<div></div>

The first one looks f*cked up. There is no white in the print. The second one looks like you've exceeded the latitude of the film. It can't hold detail in the extreme whites and the shadows simultaneously because the film doesn't have that much latitude.

Hi Kent - yeah - worked about 12 hours to get them both like that. Ah well... the way I wanted them.

Kent, I think you are applying rules which don't apply. I'd like to paint like these images and that's the realm they are in.

Adrian - thanks.... and here's a different contrast of the first image. When I thought I had it about right - I made a few slightly different images.

 

Rob<div></div>

That one urts me eyes.

Good, though.

Can I buy some sun glasses? Thanks Adrian

I like them both, Rob. Somewhere between the contrast of your first one and its alternate would work best for me - but the effect is great!

Rob, Nice to see that you are experimenting. How do the prints look (if you have tried printing).

 

Here is one from me.<div></div>

Vivek - Bob - thanks for the comments. Bob - I find it difficult to gauge contrast on this laptop screen - so end up doing a few to eventually get one I like.

 

I'm doing these on watercolour paper -

 

vivek = Love the colours and composition there. I reckon you have a sunnier mind - mine are dark and gloomy - that one sparkles

 

 

Rob

Bet they look fantastic on watercolour paper. I never liked manipulated images before seeing these pictures of yours. They work very well indeed.

Rob: I enjoyed "Lustrous Light". William Henry Fox Talbot would be pleased.

John - hey - thanks for that - glad you liked it - and would be really pleased if Talbot thought anything of it. Or Steichan, Steiglitz, DeMarchy, Coburn....

 

Rob

Rob, Thanks! The whites do not show as clean whites on the upload. Kent's propehtic post was for me, I guess. I am trying to mimick my 6 year old son's paintings and am doing a poor job of it. :-)

Vivek - doing a poor job? NO - that's a piece of Art - not just a photo. There's a huge difference.

 

I've found that problem with whites, too. On screen at night they might look white - during the day a dirty grey - and different again when printed. I'm just printing some onto watercolour paper.

 

Keep at that work...

Vivek - this crop from a neg taken with a Leica IIIB and Sonnar. The original neg was fine - and the full frame photograph OK - but here is something else - a small section that seemed to call for some involvement.<div></div>

That last should have been IIIb and Summar