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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A new batch of film portraits
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:29:26 +0530
References: <E5CD406A-7E67-49A1-A9A8-F7F92DE36A3D@frozenlight.eu>

Excellent set, but I much prefer the rendering of digital, because it has a
much higher dynamic range to play around with. To me, the method used is
not important, only the final output is.

I prefer a digital darkroom to a wet darkroom as well. ?

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 2:48?PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:

> In the past few months, I have done a couple of new things when it comes
> to shooting film. First, I have begun to use the Topaz AI suite, and I have
> gone back through my 2022 film images and reprocessed them using those
> tools; there is definitely a learning curve, but I think that I am now
> getting the hang of it (mainly using the controls to dial back some of the
> effects, actually). The second development (no pun intended) is that I have
> started to develop my own film again (until recently, I was sending it off
> to a lab in Valencia)?I get better results by doing it myself and save
> money in the process, so it is definitely a win-win situation.
>
> I have just added 12 mostly informal portraits to my Film Portraits
> gallery, all taken since June 2022, but recently reprocessed as mentioned
> above. You can click on the individual links below, or just click on the
> arrow on the right to move to the next image.
>
> My classmate Lone:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-jxB7BRB/A
>
> Eri:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-xsDmKRF/A
>
> Carolina and Carmen:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-qMGkCNr/A
>
> I?aki?s daughter (I forgot her name):
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-H9PZFVZ/A
>
> I?aki and his daughter:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-4tcspNL/A
>
> My former trainee Antanina:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-5BJdgWt/A
>
> Our neighbour Juan:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-t5mL3WT/A
>
> Juan?s wife Isabel:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-tNrQQp8/A
>
> A face in Brussels:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-XmxV5Vv/A
>
> Eri, again:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-2RqLw56/A
>
> The wine lady:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Film/Film-portraits/i-NKc6z9K/A
>
> The last 3 are developed by me.
>
> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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