Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very informative and definitely helpful. The example you had is pretty much exactly the look I was wanting. Thanks. Gerald On Apr 27, 2006, at 1:02 AM, Luis Miguel Casta?eda wrote: > > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information