Have you ever taken photos with no regard for artistry but purely to test something and then thought, "Actually, I quite like that!"?
I bought some cheap film purporting to be 400iso. This is the second strip I put through the camera. I have indeed settled on 400iso (the way I meter the scene) but I felt I over developed the first strip at 6 mins 40 secs, so this time tried 5mins 30secs, which seems much better.
I was driving to the recycling tip with a view to find a scene with some shadows and some of the bright cloud tops that were about that day, to ensure there was a wide dynamic range to help my unscientific method of judging development times.
This wall is on a corner that a few of us stop at on occasions to judge weather conditions. I've stopped at it many times over the last 35 years, sometimes for seconds, sometimes for minutes, sometimes elated, sometimes crestfallen.
I metered what I thought would be ok for the scene then, without thinking anything more than "get some of the wall and some of the cloud tops", I took the shot.
Having examined it from the point of view of exposure and development, I'm now looking at it from an artistic viewpoint. I like the texture in the wall and the way the top of the wall bisects the frame and forms the "foundation" to the mountain. The top of the mountain runs parallel to the wall, and the darker tones of the tree adds interest above the wall echoing those of the grass.
Just some musings and quite a long post for a picture which will be in the digital bin in a few days, but I just wanted to share. Perhaps you've a photo that you didn't think about but subsequently liked?
Pete
I bought some cheap film purporting to be 400iso. This is the second strip I put through the camera. I have indeed settled on 400iso (the way I meter the scene) but I felt I over developed the first strip at 6 mins 40 secs, so this time tried 5mins 30secs, which seems much better.
I was driving to the recycling tip with a view to find a scene with some shadows and some of the bright cloud tops that were about that day, to ensure there was a wide dynamic range to help my unscientific method of judging development times.
This wall is on a corner that a few of us stop at on occasions to judge weather conditions. I've stopped at it many times over the last 35 years, sometimes for seconds, sometimes for minutes, sometimes elated, sometimes crestfallen.
I metered what I thought would be ok for the scene then, without thinking anything more than "get some of the wall and some of the cloud tops", I took the shot.
Having examined it from the point of view of exposure and development, I'm now looking at it from an artistic viewpoint. I like the texture in the wall and the way the top of the wall bisects the frame and forms the "foundation" to the mountain. The top of the mountain runs parallel to the wall, and the darker tones of the tree adds interest above the wall echoing those of the grass.
Just some musings and quite a long post for a picture which will be in the digital bin in a few days, but I just wanted to share. Perhaps you've a photo that you didn't think about but subsequently liked?
Pete
