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Postby Reschsmooth on Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:19 am

Just got some more film developed from our trip to Melbourne in Dec, and here are a few results after some PP, including one conversion to sepia). Most shots were at 20 (which is true 20mm on the f90x :twisted: , none of this 1.5x crop factor rubbish), on Ilford HP5.

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The same photo converted to sepia (interested in preferences):

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Postby Yi-P on Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:57 am

#3 is just up to the framing list!! Blow up BIG and frame it! :D

No more need to worry about mega pixels and DPI :lol:
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Postby daniel_r on Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:37 pm

HP5... One of my favourite films!, and in this case seems well developed too with the grain well controlled. Home or lab development job?

Tick for #1, flick for #2. Sepia is overrated :D :lol:

#3 is the best shot of the group, perfect DOF fall off.
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Postby Reschsmooth on Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:28 pm

Thanks for the feedback Yip and Daniel - no 3 would be better now as Alicia (Mrs Reschsmooth) has a bigger pregnant belly :lol:

I think your comment about the sepia treatment is fair enough - the HP5 produces a good enough result in B&W without having to muck around converting to sepia.

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(I just realised I didn't crop the 4th image after the straightening - and now I have brought your attention to it :lol: )
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Postby Alex on Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:52 pm

I think no. 3 is the winner here, although I find the blur in the background a tad destructive. I also like the sepia treatment in No.2.

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Postby Greg B on Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:12 pm

Personally, I like sepia.

The sepia tratment here actually makes the shot look a bit like a colour neg! Quite strange.

No. 3 is good.

No. 4 looks like it should be good, but for some reason I just don't think it works.
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Postby Geoff on Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:05 am

The first image looks good, both in B&W and Sepia, but I think the sepia treatment is slightly better.

The third image, as popularly stated, is the real winner - great image and one that will be a great reminder of this time in your lives with the development of baby Rechsmooth :) Frame this one indeed!!

#4 - great perpsective and nice tone with the B&W!

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Postby Reschsmooth on Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:13 am

Thanks for the feedback Geoff (and everyone else). I think I mentioned previously that no 3 would look even better now as the baby-Reschsmooth bump is noticably bigger than it was a little over a month ago in Melbourne :lol:

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(BTW Daniel - the film was developed at a Fuji lab - I am still getting all the stuff and then experience at home development. Next then would be a neg scanner).
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