Organic Grain EditionPlease post film photos, talk about film photography, film gear like cameras, film stocks, news, and tips/tricks in this thread.Also talk about darkroom practices, enlargers, photo paper, techniques like dodging/burning, tools, and equipment related to enlarging, developing, and printing.Thread Question: Grain. Need it or keep it?Previous thread: >>4526501
I decided against making my own thread for these images. Sorry they're all so dirty. I've just kind accepted it at this point. I think it's mainly my scanner, but idk. I used a wet lint free cloth to wipe the negatives before drying and they were still dirty.Canon 1v, 70-200 f2.8, fuji film, sunrise.
These are going to be posted in semi chronological order, so imagine you had a very restless night, got tired of waiting around in bed, and took your heavy ass blobmera out to take a walk in the morning and enjoy the sunrise with all your animals.
Love the dew covered spider webs on the spiky ass plants.
Okay onto some animal pics now.
The super low light you get from sunrise is really fun to work with.
There's a few of these calf + cow pics. That's the little guys mom. In love with these so bear with while I post a few of them.
And now from the other side. Love the light on these. Almost feels like they are studio lit.
This film also handles the white fur on the calf in a really nice looking way. Hard to describe but I think it looks really really good.
And thats what I got out of 2 rolls and an hour and a half. Thanks for looking. Should I have made my own thread for these? I feel like people have been neglecting fgt lately.
Forgot one I liked. 20 is a good number anyways. They're so cute together. What a treat it was to photograph this moment between a cow and her baby in such lovely light.
>>4538219That's actually beatiful.Rare to se genuinely good photos on /p/iss.
one of my prints I'm sending for print exchangecaught that spider on Mamiya 645 with macro extension, toned in selenium Kentmere VC RC paperexcuse the dust it's a quick scan with a printer
It bothers me a little how good these shots are./rpt/ should hang themselves.
I'll dump a handful from some rolls I shot on a trip last month that I'm still working on. This is 800T.>>4538224Cozy lighting and fog.>>4538230Probably my favorite. Love what the backlighting is doing to the pigs.Are you using a rocket blower on your negatives? The dust pattern is different in each shot, so I don't think it's a case of a dirty scanner, but I'm not sure.
>>4538307Ektar
>>4538308HP5
>>4538309Some Chinesium stock called Yes!Star Supreme that I've never heard of before. Seems to shift very pink/magenta in the mids/highs and blue/cyan in the shadows, or at least with how I was scanning it.Kinda neat, but I'll probably stick with Lucky if I want to go Chinese again.
>>4538311Last one. A lab scan of E100 that I'm still waiting to get back so that I try scanning it myself.Vignetting out the ass on this entire roll because I had some 3-filter abomination and a step-up ring going on.
>>4538230Half-assed, unfinished cleanup. Hard to tell what is dust and what might just be small light reflections, so might've overdone it in some areas.I think you have a number of shots on this roll that deserve cleaner scans, so I hope you're able to figure out the dust situation.My hand hurts after just doing this one, so unless you're able to physically remove it or use digital ICE, I can't imagine trying to do all of them manually.
>>4538312Why the three filters?
>>4538322Circular polarizer to help reign in the highlights since the dynamic range is so limited, a warming filter because E100 leans too cool for my taste, and a 1/8 black pro mist because I use it on basically everything.The roll actually just arrived, so I'll try scanning it tonight once it gets dark and see how bad the vignetting is and if I can do anything about it.If anything, I might just leave out the black pro mist next time and hopefully that will be enough to solve it.
>>4538313Ty for doing that. I agree. Hopefully you had some fun/satisfaction for your time. I will definitely try re-washing these negatives.>>4538307The dark pig shot was the one I was most unsure about at first. Such a dark edit is kinda risky I guess, but it worked out really nicely. Ektar shot is pretty cool and my fav from your batch. B&W one is pretty neat as well. Very imposing. Would be a cool one to print really massive to accentuate that.
>>4538327Dust-busting is therapeutic, aye - at least until the carpal tunnel starts setting in.And cheers. Got a couple in here I want to print, but I'm already out of space to hang anything, so it'll probably just be little 4x6's.
>>4538228Great pics anon got any pics of wild animals especially birds? I've wondered how that would go on film being spoiled with animal detection auto focus and all that on mirrorless
>>4538239>Should I have made my own thread for these? I feel like people have been neglecting fgt lately.Because you drove them all away you autistic freak.
>>4538371You're the autistic freak. OP actually posted good photos. That's what this shitty board is meant to be used for.
>>4538371No, it was me that killed the previous thread by posting three pictures in a row. Beware, I am picking up my latest scans on Monday!
>>4538371Do you like my pics? I think you should contribute some nice images and see what happens. :D
>>4538371Get the fuck out.
Any anons know a similar alternative to cinestill 400D that they use often? I've used it almost exclusively for color film for a long while and disappointed that it's likely discontinued.
>>4538219Beautiful photos anon but dear lord do something about that dust.
Immensely foggy day and all I had on me was a 90 year old box camera.
>>4538529what's wrong with ultramax or portra? I guess there's also the new kodak PRO 400 but I think that's just ultramax with a different box
>>4538529Vision3 250D or 500D short ends. Stock up on ebay before its all gone.
>>4538529I have a lot of expired Konica VX rolls, I really like the results I get.
>>4538738Sorry, just woke up and didn't read the post properly. If you want a similar alternative to Cinestill 400D, you could look into those Cyberpunk rolls, they have their remjet layer removed if im not mistaken. And they're pretty cheap, you could get 3 rolls for the price of 1 Cinestill 800T.
>>4538694Guess I should've clarified a little more. I like my film vibrant. Porta and ultramax always look too muted for my liking. >>4538739>>4538696Thanks for suggestions
looking for feedback
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>>4538822Ultramax is probably Kodak's second most saturated C41 stock behind Ektar, so something's up if it's coming out muted for you.
Oh yeah we're so back. https://www.freestylephoto.com/8960312-Kodak-Ektachrome-E100D-100-ISO-4x5-10-SheetsAnd it looks like kodak is also getting 4x5 e100D distributed directly soon too https://www.freestylephoto.com/7523301-Kodak-Ektachrome-E100D-100-ISO-4x5-10-Sheets
>>4538930They cut off the Alaris jew or am I getting this wrong?
>>4538930They had e100 in 120 format available a couple weeks ago. Stocked up on 25 rolls.
>>4538932Yeah that's exactly what happened. But freestyle finally got the last alaris stock in, is what it looks like. The Eastman Kodak branded stuff isn't available yet, but I'm glad to see that 4x5 didn't get cut from their product line. I was concerned when only 135 and 120 e100 was announced by Eastman
>>4538219If I wanted to have no grain I'd shoot digital. With that said, I do find the grain on T-grain films developed in a solvent developer like Xtol to be extremely pleasing. The grain is subtly present without overpowering the image. I don't have the images on my person to demonstrate (Mia Culpa), but I have been enjoying Ilford Delta 3200, shot at 1600, developed in Xtol 1:1. Negs were a little thin but that was my fault; results were perfectly usuable and quite lovely.
>>4538951 (forgot to say this lmao)With all that said, I am about to develop some images on Fomapan 400 with 1:50 rodinal. I want to see if crunchy grain is something I'll desire for this project I'm doing.
>>4538952here foma 400 in rodinal 1:50, exposed at 200EIif you want even more grain develop in higher temperature
>>4538934Alaris is still distributing Kodak film, it doesn't make sense to completely cut Alaris out if you are Eastman
>>4538953I forgot to mention that I shot most shots at 250. Having developed the roll and made some prints, I can tell you those were the best exposed. I quite liked having dense negatives to work with for once lmao.
i'm thinking of switching to apsc for scanning. tired of 200MB raws out of the gfx >>4538231saved
just ordered a nikon f3, my fe has light leaks and I am frequently limited by the 1/1000 max shutter.
I just shot some fp4 4x5 and developed in hc110 B. I think its really nice.
