Ladies and Gents - I give you "the Fence" by film!
Yup... i got my first roll developed... not spectacular, but not an epic fail either, right? Admittedly, this was tweaked in PSE, but still, not awful... right? right? Please tell me I'm right?!!
Tx everyone for the views, comments and favs on my light photos posted yesterday... The feedback is really helpful and appreciated!
@peterdegraaff bahaaa! yeah, predictive text is iffy at best... the colour is totally boosted - but i took almost the same picture with my T2i, with as similar settings as i could get, and did the same post processing, and the film still looks a bit more muted (altho' not in a bad way)... i was going to do the two together as a collage, but i got annoyed at picassa which is the only editing software i ever have luck in doing collages in... and anyway, i actually like the film version of this nothing comp better!
@northy I think that correcting colour and sharpening is totally acceptable when digitizing. What sort of film did you use. I'm gonna guess Fuji 200 ASA.
@peterdegraaff That's frightening... It was iso 200... Make was a store brand called black's... They are a run of the mill photography store in Canada... Also, I'm pretty sure this film had expired... But I tossed the box months ago so couldn't tell...
@andycoleborn well huh! i didn't realize it pulled up a camera type for this... really really wierd... it came off a disk prepared for me by blacks (where i had the thing developed) and the disk says "fuji film CD-R for photo" on it... and actually - when i click on the camera make it takes me a page of random cameras on amazon... go figure! (and yeah, i'm pretty sure i used a film camera... ;p)
Well done northy! Definitely not awful. Maybe you could tease out some detail in that tree/hedge on the left? The line of the fence would then nicely lead the eye to whatever is there. To get it on film you would have had to burn in just that part of the image on the paper, but with digital its so much easier! In camera some exposure compensation would have been required at the expense of the sky. In exchange for that information you have to tell me what film you used!
@newbie A Pentax Mz-m - does that mean anything to you? Doesn't really to me... Just something I found cheap at Henry's camera outlet :). I don't feel really hardcore about it - just looking to try something a little different :)
Awesome! Way to go on the film. I found out that store brand here in the US, if it is made in the US is kodak and if not it's FUJI so I'm sure there is something along those lines that applies to Canada.
The Exif will record the Scanner Model number as the camera, but you prob already worked that out. There is a program called AnalogExif which allows you to edit all the Exif detail if you should wish. http://sourceforge.net/projects/analogexif/
The Pentax MX's are nice cam's, and lots of good lens on Ebay at dirt cheap prices to be had. Personally I never process my film shots if they are staying in colour, the trick is to work out what film works best with a camera, I'm firmly in the Fuji camp but try out different ones. You may find writing then Ap, Exp, Weather conditions etc. help for figuring out how the camera works best. And there are loads of cool film Flickr groups for advice and such.
@blahblahblah tx Jase... i'm not sure my brain is wired right for this sort of stuff, but we'll see... it occurred to me that i might actually have to learn to understand exposure and metering properly (with digital i tend to be a bit random about it and tweak in post)
i actually had intended to convert this shot to b&w - not even sure i remember now why i didn't... anyhoo... just for fun, picked up a roll of b&w film because that was my favorite for playing with way back when...
@northy Using film is the best way to learn exposure, does the Pentax have a light meter? You can pick up some nice old on Ebay, but will need to get a "Wein Cell" to power them as they used the old type mercury cells back in the day.
Also some people do use Light Meter apps on their smart phones.
September 24th, 2012
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(I love that Peter is guessing film!!)
Definitely not a fail!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/analogexif/
The Pentax MX's are nice cam's, and lots of good lens on Ebay at dirt cheap prices to be had. Personally I never process my film shots if they are staying in colour, the trick is to work out what film works best with a camera, I'm firmly in the Fuji camp but try out different ones. You may find writing then Ap, Exp, Weather conditions etc. help for figuring out how the camera works best. And there are loads of cool film Flickr groups for advice and such.
i actually had intended to convert this shot to b&w - not even sure i remember now why i didn't... anyhoo... just for fun, picked up a roll of b&w film because that was my favorite for playing with way back when...
Also some people do use Light Meter apps on their smart phones.