Love the first of those TWok! How the background is really blurred, but you can still make out what it is, and how that fits with the foreground in focus, nice!
I took this shot of my Grandfather about a year ago but finally got it developed and scanned. Shot on 4X5 Ilford Delta 100 with a Symmar-S 150/5.6 wide open.
ulrikft wrote:
Love the first of those TWok! How the background is really blurred, but you can still make out what it is, and how that fits with the foreground in focus, nice!
Thanks!
My negatives come out great, or, they look like it as negatives.
But when i print it, even if I turn the contrast knob to max, i don't seem to get very contrasty images, they come out a bit.. dull and grey? any tips? Stop trying to enlarge myself? :P Scan and print on a inkjet?
Are you using any filters to raise contrast? Typically, if images come out dull and grey, i just add contrast raising filters (purple, for example) and adjust exposure time. You can just increase exposure time, but then you risk turning your whites into greys. To get your enlargements to look like scanned images might sometimes take serious work, but it's usually well worth tinkering. A great source of information can be found on APUG (http://www.apug.org).
