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black tree
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Back in those early days of photography, discovering a waterfall of any kind was a very exciting treasure...
So after I had messed about with Holgas for a while, I bought myself a second-hand Pentax 645N... a really amazing camera... pretty heavy. I still have it with me... perhaps I should still use it (it has been a while since I last shot film - though I love it more than digital).
So I hauled the camera around the North York Moors (out towards Whitby... I used to go there from York on the bus, with a tripod and the camera kit).
I expect the film would have been Ilford HP5+
(if not, then there is some slight chance it might have been Ilford FP4 or Fuji Neopan).
I was not yet developing it myself - so I guess I sent it away.
I think I would have scanned the negative using my Epson Perfection V800 (also in storage a long way away right now) - into Photoshop - probably I would convert it to black and white and then into a brown duotone - I do feel in retrospect that I over-did the brown tones on a lot of these images, and would have been better sticking a bit closer to pure black & white.
as to your toning of this photo, i think it is perfect. there is a subtlety that let's one see into the photo and all its details.
hey, i have an Epson Perfction scanner, but it is a 4490. i get a bit frustrated with it at times, but it is really nice to have for scanning negatives. I think your V800 is probably a step up from mine, even if yours is older than mine.
we have some great waterfalls near Portland, Oregon, my city. i doubt i can get a photo as good as this one, but it will be a good excuse to get out of town and try using the Hasselblad again. fall is a good time of year to catch the waterfalls once the rains start again.
have a good week.
peace,
raingirl (laura)
I do hope you manage to get out with your Hasselblad... I'm guessing that you probably have a Carl Zeiss lens on it? I never owned a Hasselblad, but I have always totally loved the qualities of the old Zeiss lenses - I have used an old Pentacon Six, and an 'Ikoflex', both of which produced that great medium format 6x6 Zeiss 'Tessar' look... something about the razor-sharpness and then the way it falls off into out-of-focus bokeh.
I know what you mean, that the 'look' of 6x6 film from that kind of camera is pretty distinctive... I guess with digital you have a smaller sensor to start with, so the depth of field behaves differently - and also digital feels more like shooting 'positive' slide film, because you always have to battle against over-exposure: once you over-expose on digital (or slide film) then you have blown the highlights, whereas with b+w film it's kind of the opposite... it feels like there is more latitude, and Ilford HP5+ would always give me some kind of interesting result, no matter how much I messed up the exposure or the developing times :)
The more time goes by, the more I like the old large-format photos by Eugene Atget and Julia Margaret Cameron and Alfred Stieglitz... those are worth staring at for inspiration...
Good luck with the waterfalls :)
All the best
Jim
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