Film Scan - Window Grid

[Paul Lange]

This was taken in Rovinj - Croatia with my newly appropriated Nikon FE and a Nikon 50mm 1.2 lens. The negatives seem a little on the thin side to me but this could be for a number of reasons. Also a fair amount of specks but this is probably down to my botched developing and not bothering to dust my desk down before I started scanning. Here are the before and after for comparison. The film was Fuji Across 100.

The straight scan

Window Grid-2 Unprocessed-2.jpg by Paul R Lange, on Flickr


After a fair amount of curves adjustment and a slight boost of clarity, blacks, sharpening and noise removal in LR.

Window Grid-2.jpg by Paul R Lange, on Flickr

How do they images look? Do they seem about right for film or too grainy, too light.

 

[Pete Askew]

The grain looks about right to me from what I can see on the screen. This looks more over-exposed than the negative you showed me earlier but maybe that was just the light. The tones on the iron-work are nice and I like the overall image though.

 

[Paul Lange]

Cheers Pete. I think half of it is known what to expect. I did have some prints from my college days but when I tried to find them they were gone. I think I might get a reel developed at Ilford for comparison. Something advice you did give me which I promptly ignored in my excitement when the chemicals arrived.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Really like the shot Paul!
But I have to say I am slightly intrigued to know how you are finding the FE?
And what do you think to my 50mm jewlery *cough* lens

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks for the comments Hamish, all of them from the other posts as well. Also thank you for asking this question it made me dig on the Centon K100 and I found 2 rolls of FP4 in the box that I had forgot about!!

The FE is quite weighty and I don't like the way you have to pull the winder out to turn metering on as the level then sticks in your forehead. Other than that I really like it, it's a basic but solid camera. The 50mm 1.2 seems pretty good although I have not compared it to the 1.4 or the 1.8G that I have. Seems to do the business though.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

PP has given you a lovely image Paul - you get a 'far away places' feel from the window grate and the outline of the guy's clothing, which sets the mood nicely.

PP on images with BOKEH often enhances elements which would normally be blurry due to the DOF used - so I often do my PP to enhance contrast etc, and then at the end go back and re-soften the background to tone it down - leaving the subject/foreground enhanced - if that makes sense?

 

[Paul Lange]

Makes sense Chris & a good idea.