single photos Saturday Afternoon at the Vic

Ian, thanks for bringing these back.

Quite fab. Great light, great shadows. Great mood. Absolutely love it, just like I do for the rest of so many of your other pictures.

Please advise me. I hugely admire the way you have handled the interior light conditions in this and several other terrific photos (e.g. the exotic dancer). How do you judge exposure, and how do you develop the film? Do you use your hand as a metering object, or do you expose for the shadows? And do you end up tediously printing in those highlights (e.g. the light bulbs in the exotic dancer again)?

Myself, I have sttled on Tri-X developed in Emofin (wonderful combination). The 2-bath system helps the highlights not to go off the scale, but I still find metering difficult in this kind of casual setting. Your experience/advice would be hugely appreciated, as are your photos. Please keep them coming.

 

Jonathan