Black and Whites
Sep 2, 2021 14:58:00 #
Bill 45 wrote:
Picture # 3 is grainy and picture# 8 look to me being half grainy. Bottom part of the picture is grainy, but the upper part of the picture is fine. Odd, yes. The rest of your pictures are very well done. I think you have a bad roll of film.
Thank you Bill. Always a pleasure to hear from you. Glad you like the photos. I guess it could be a bad roll of film. It was quite some many months from the Mission photos to the Goleta Depot Museum photos.
Dennis
Sep 2, 2021 15:01:02 #
AzPicLady wrote:
The Ilford has performed exactly as it is supposed to. You have really nice highlights and shadows and varying degrees in between. The contrast level is good. Did you have to adjust it?
Thank you very much. I did not adjust the contrast at all until after I posted my photos. Then a friend, a retired professional photographer called me to discuss my photos. Over the phone we discussed each photo and he thought there was too much contrast in the photos. I adjusted some of them and made some other minor changes to others. Nothing huge and not that I am going to repost the pictures. Basically just opened up the shadows on many of them. I did see an improvement.
Thanks for your comment.
Dennis
Sep 2, 2021 15:01:35 #
Earnest Botello wrote:
Great series, Dennis.
Thank you Earnest. It is always a pleasure to read your comments.
Dennis
Sep 2, 2021 15:02:02 #
tgreenhaw wrote:
I've always loved the Ilford contrast. Nice artwork :-)
Thank you very much. That and other comments helped make my day.
Dennis
Sep 2, 2021 15:38:59 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
Dennis these are great images. Of course there are those who could find fault with certain aspects of particular photographs, but this is part of the crapshoot you face when shooting with film; you give it your best effort, but you do have to wait to get the film back to see if you and the processor managed to get the result you had in mind when you pressed the shutter. I think you were very successful. Have you considered a long term, doing whenever it is convenient project of shooting various B&W emulsions? I, for one, would be interested in your results. One last thing. There are those who would argue that a white cat sitting in front of a pile of coal, or conversely, a black cat on a snowpile should only be photographed in color. Some of us do not agree with that.
Sep 2, 2021 16:05:22 #
RodeoMan wrote:
Dennis these are great images. Of course there ar... (show quote)
Thank you for our positive comments. I appreciate the kind words.
As for the suggestion of shooting various emulsions I would have no interest at all in doing that.
Dennis
Sep 2, 2021 17:32:41 #
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Sep 2, 2021 18:52:54 #
That 3rd image was the only one that clearly had issues , otherwise I think they came out decent and you did good. 
Sep 2, 2021 19:13:04 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
dennis2146 wrote:
Many who know me here will remember I struggle to make some good black and white photographs. I just had a roll of film developed and here are some of the results. I like these but they are more grainy than I expected. I used my Leica M6TTL with either a 28, 35 or 50mm Leica lens. The film was Ilford XP2 Super at 160 ISO.
Please let me know what you think.
Dennis
Please let me know what you think.
Dennis
Very nostalgic shots. I assume this is around Goleta Ca, near Santa Barbara.
Sep 2, 2021 19:20:39 #
Blair Shaw Jr wrote:
That 3rd image was the only one that clearly had issues , otherwise I think they came out decent and you did good.
Thanks much for looking and commenting.
Dennis
Sep 2, 2021 19:21:28 #
Ballard wrote:
Very nostalgic shots. I assume this is around Goleta Ca, near Santa Barbara.
Thanks for the comments. Absolutely correct on the location.
Dennis
Sep 2, 2021 21:37:57 #
dennis2146 wrote:
I don’t know but I appreciate what you said about my black and white photos. 👍🤓👌🏻
Dennis
Dennis
I've never seen a B&W photo that wouldn't look better in color!
Sep 2, 2021 22:12:21 #
Retired CPO wrote:
I've never seen a B&W photo that wouldn't look better in color!
OK. We all have different tastes. Not a problem for me.
Dennis
Sep 5, 2021 15:36:14 #
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