Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 27/04/2006, at 3:59, Gerald Homeyer wrote: > This summer one of my classes is photo journalism, and I'm wanting > to shoot images a bit "old school", or retro style, just to be > different. [...] > Any and all input is gladly welcomed. I will use any old style film like FP-4, HP-5, Tri-X, foma, forte, adox or whatever else I will be comfortable, so T-grain or chromogenic are discarded, but, depending what kind of "retro" look you are willing to emulate you might want to expose and process it differently. If you're going to use pyro I suspect that you're aiming to a wide range of tones and perhaps a slight warm tone in the print. I'd suggest to expose the film 1 stop below the maker's nominal speed (100>50 iso) and cut the development about a 20% which will provide a lot apparent grain less while contrast will remain untouched [if the contrast is normal, if it's low stick with makers indications]. For the print I'd stick with fomatone MG papers, which apart cheaper, are slow and warmtone (more ease to dodge/burn) and I'll process them with something like diluted Neutol or Eukobrom (I don't use dektol but surely it will do the trick too) to keep the warm tone under control. Expect very very long development times. An after treatment with selenium will give you even more control over the final print. Those tips should put you on the track of first half of XX century look, and if you print on the chamois variant of that paper it will provide some photogravure look that isn't common at all nowadays. I've posted an example here [ http://tinyurl.com/o95a2 ] if you want to check. Hope it helps, and have fun :) Saludos ----------------------------------------- http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/