Winter is Coming

Yhea! Now that one turns your head really quick! Easily your best.

Ps. Anne agrees!

Impish. How obvious it is that she is smiling, even if we don't see her mouth!

A short technical question: you mentioned that it is pushed 3 stops and was exposed at EI 1600, but I thought that XP2 Super was ASA 400 (which would make 1600 a 2 stop push). Was it shot at 1600 and developed at 3200?

I'm just wondering how you developed/printed this one? I have a hard time with fast film and grain. What combination of developer, time, temperature and then paper, filter, enlarger time/exposure did you use?

I'm aboslutely astounded by the variety of greys you got on this.

Just gorgeous :)

Jeffrey: this has been developed by a local pro lab. Ilford XP-2 Super is a C-41 film, meaning it is developed in color negative chemistry rather than conventional black and white chemistry. I simply asked for a three stop push, after having exposed at EI 1600. I had an 8x10 print done on Ilford Multigrade paper (I don't print myself, unfortunately) which looks really good, but this image has been scanned directly off the film (the print looks very similar).

I really love this film, BTW. I just got back a roll that I used in my Olympus Stylus Epic (smallish P&S camera), and I've got lots of very good pictures, including an amazing window light portrait of the same girl (Mélanie, my significant other). Everybody thinks I used my big SLR and fancy lenses to do them, hehe!