rays photography Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Tri-X films used at 400 or 1600. Critique welcome.<br><br> <a href="www.silverdots.net/india/bw.html">B&W of India with M6 + 35/2 Summicron</a><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rays photography Posted December 27, 2003 Author Share Posted December 27, 2003 http://www.silverdots.net/india/bw.html or http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=361965 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsoonphoto.net Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Good work there! I love your use of light -- or lack of. The pictures made me smile. I'd like to see more. One suggestion -- consider adding captions... that will help put the pictures in context. What HTML editor did you use to create the gallery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_. Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 absolutely love it, caption or not. It's beautifully done. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis1 Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Bravo! Beautiful stuff. Having love my Indian community, your portfolio just reinforced my desire to travel to India. ;) Happy New Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Yep, that's really fine work man! Thanks for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__jon__ Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Raymond, You should post this link instead: http://www.silverdots.net/ Your whole site is great... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymond_tai Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Really great work. My standard for what is good just went up a notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 There are some very nice images. Some of the face-on direct eye contact portraits in particular though are a little static and don't seem to go anywhere, and might be edited. I don't see any reason to limit the size of the scans so much... I'd like to see what's going on in the photos a little better and see the detail the film captured. I also think this group of photos would be better with captions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karl_georg_wolf Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Wonderful images, great work indeed. Thx for pointing to your site. Best regards and Happy New Year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rays photography Posted December 28, 2003 Author Share Posted December 28, 2003 Alan: I hand-coded my site. I did one page and C&P to make more. It's easier for me than HTML editor.:-) The lack of light part is what I love M6 about. Ray: I've taken notes of your comments on the portraits. I'll keep working on it. The scan size is incidental. Thanks also for the caption suggestion. Happy New Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlegaspi Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 very nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlegaspi Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 i looked at your other portfolio, "Bound for Morocco." equally stunning...the way you worked with the light and shadows is very "Alex Webb-ish" (is that a word? hey that should be a word!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_lee2 Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Agreed, some nice stuff, these two in particular to me were standouts (from India B&W) for their strong graphics: <p> http://www.photo.net/photo/1996238&size=lg <p> http://www.photo.net/photo/1996248&size=lg <p> What was your developer and your developing method (for the Tri-X rated at 1600), if you don't mind my asking? <p> Gotta go check out your other folders now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timothy_nelson Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Raymond, Terrific work...I checked out the galleries on your website, too. A tip for your next trip: if you like both B&W and color (I noticed you have some nice color work, too), test shoot some ISO 400 color neg, because it might work for both your color and BW needs. Until recently I used TriX and Delta 100 for almost everything, with only occasional color usage. I prefer to carry just one camera, especially when travelling. Once I started scanning my negs for inkjet prints a couple years ago, I discovered that the current generations of color neg film can give you excellent BW through the digital route (Photoshop Channel Mixer, plus your experience with the look of TriX). I know conversion BW is a hotly debated topic on these forums, but try it if you haven't already, and see what your own eyes tell you. Fujicolor Press 400 can give me B&W that I like a lot, and that's after 30 years of dedicated TriX use. The grain structure is certainly a little different (finer), but it prints beautifully on inkjet. It's a tremendous convenience to have just the one film. When travelling in super colorful parts of the world, I often wished I had color film in the camera, even for just a couple shots, when I was loaded with my standard B&W. Also, when you return from the trip, you aren't facing 50 rolls of TriX to develop--you just drop off your film for C41 development. Of course, this asssumes you're set up to scan negatives. I batch-scan the rolls at fairly low res (faster) and make contact sheets in Photoshop, which I can convert to B&W to judge which images work best in BW vs. color. I love the look of TriX, too, and I was pleasantly surprised with how well this works (for me). Depending on the image, somewhere between 25R/70G/5B and 50R/50G/0B in Channel Mixer to greyscale, plus adding a little more toe and shoulder in the contrast curve, gives me the look of TriX, starting with a Fujicolor Press neg. Try it before your next extended trip.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rays photography Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 Dexter: I agree "Alex Webb-ish" is a legitimate word. How about "Constantine Manosian"? I like their works. Andrew: I use D76 1:1 exclusively. For Tri-X @1600, the time is 16.5 minutes at standard temperature, in small steel tank (2-4 rolls), inversed for 10 seconds every minute. Timothy: Very recently, I've started to process C41 myself. The primary reason is to pull color negatives two stops to wash off the color and get something like B&W with tinted colors. If done properly, the result can be quite interesting, more subtle and natural than hand-colored B&W. I'm still experimenting, but I've seen one friend's work done fairly well. Your suggestion certainly deserves serious consideration. I'll probably try it out even before my next trip, and I might as well. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timothy_nelson Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Raymond, About your C41 developing experiments--it sounds like you enjoy film processing and experimentation. However, this is another instance in which you might be able to achieve the image qualities you want more easily and with more control in Photoshop. You can get that hand-tinted look by desaturating one or more of the color channels. You can even add brushstrokes to the coloration, if you want. More of a challenge, and perhaps more of a fun surprise to experiment with the darkroom processing, though. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rays photography Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 Tim, you're right it's for the fun part I'm sticking to darkroom. I'm getting my hands wet in Photoshop but while there, I actually refrain from performing too much Photoshop trickery. In my mind there's still that thin line between photograph and digital image. Maybe the whole thing is just imaginery. On this I debate with myself from time to time, but I'm keeping my eyes and mind open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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