Suomenlinna, Sunset

Suomenlinna seafortress at light of the sunset, 9/25/2007.

 

 

6x6 B&W film Ilford Delta 100, 50mm wide field lens, f11 4sec.Developer: DiXactol with partial stand.

 

 

All comments and critiques are welcome!

Excellent b/w; toning looks like mine!

Jukka,

 

Intriguing image... Tonally rich, but it looks a bit grainy. Is that intentional? Very nice otherwise.

 

Bill

The grain is not intentional, the print is grainless. The grain is caused by my negative scanner that over emphasizes grain when scanning silver based films :(

I uploaded new version, which I run through noise removal filter. I hope that it's better. At least grain is not so emphasized.

Looks better Jukka.

 

Still see some grain though and I wouldn't want to push the grain filter any further as you may sacrifice sharpness. I don't have any experience with the scanning problem you describe. Does it help to scan in color and pick the channel that has the least grain? You say the print is smooth. So did you produce a conventional wet darkroom print? If that is your work-flow and your final output, then this grain here is moot isn't it?

 

Cheers,

Bill

Yes I do all printing in conventional wet process. It seems that I should always make a smaller print for scanning purpose.