Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:42 AM 2/22/97 -0600, you wrote: > I would like to know if anyone could give me some details about the >techniques Selgado used. Some of the photos, reproduced to about 11x14 in >the book, showed a very noticeable, large grain structure. The grain seemed >to enhance the photos. I was wondering if anyone knows what film/developer >combination he used to produce those results. Other photos, enlarged to >about the same size, seemed to show very little grain at all. Again, the >film/developer combination likely produced those results, and I'd like to >know if anyone knows how he was able to control that, since those photos >looked like they were taken hand-held, which might have been very difficult >in some of the lighting conditions available with slow speed film. I heard him lecture on his work a few years ago. He uses both M and R cameras, although the M is used more often. His films of choice are Tri-X and T-Max 3200, hence the grain. He does occasionally use a small flash. Even though this lecture was at RIT, he never was asked about developer!--Charlie Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU