joekraft wrote:
This is one of my favorite shots I've seen on FM. Such a nice painterly quality to it, and it seems to capture some personality of the bird somehow.
In generally I am not very worried about how my black and white stuff looks. I did this more to make sure my M2 wasn't leaking light anywhere. It has seen some use for sure. I processed the film in my bathroom, had trouble loading it, didn't control the temperature from dev to stop to fixer and then squeegeed it off because I was in a hurry to drop it off to be scanned. I need to get better, but this was a rush job.
TWoK wrote:
In generally I am not very worried about how my black and white stuff looks. I did this more to make sure my M2 wasn't leaking light anywhere. It has seen some use for sure. I processed the film in my bathroom, had trouble loading it, didn't control the temperature from dev to stop to fixer and then squeegeed it off because I was in a hurry to drop it off to be scanned. I need to get better, but this was a rush job.
Haha ok. One reason I bring it up is that there are some straight horizontal scratches which *might* be from the camera. Probably not though since they are short but you never know. Still, nice shot. What did you scan with?
those are very nice images. I have purchased some months ago a Shenhao 4x5. Never used a view camera before. Another problem was, since I live in Guangzhou, China, I did not know any processing lab doing 4x5. Now I have found one and I have taken my first photos yesterday.
Guangzhou is rapidly changing and if one want's to get a few glimpse of what has been Guangzhou before one has to hurry. This was a place I visited almost a year ago. It seemed very secluded and abandoned within the city center, but now it is surrounded by construction activities. And it can be expected that when I visit that place in another period of months the fishing boats might have been all gone.
kidtexas wrote:
Haha ok. One reason I bring it up is that there are some straight horizontal scratches which *might* be from the camera. Probably not though since they are short but you never know. Still, nice shot. What did you scan with?
Those are all scratches from the squeegee!
Geez - I guess squeegies are no good?? I was gonna buy one but maybe not now.... I usually use my fingers which works fairly well but sometimes I get water spots despite using hypoclear and distilled water rinse. Perhaps my technique.
man I've seen people perving before but I loved how this guy really got comfy and took his time doing it 
