here are a couple of shots I took of two towns at night. Please critique, tell me what you think.

Both are taken with a Canon Canonet QL17 G3, 40mm rangefinder fixed lens. Scanned with an HP Photosmart S20 film scanner at 2400dpi, but resized for posting. Just used photoshop to adjust levels - very minimal adjustment required.


TMAX400

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TriX400 exposed/developed at 1600ISO.

 

wow, those look good! post the color version. Also #2 looks a little blurry in teh foreground i dunno if u ment to do that or not.

 

Thanks!

There is no color version

There was a strong breeze that night, so the foliage in the second image are both too close to be in focus, and moving slightly during the exposure. They are merely framing for the rest of the image, not the focal point, so they should be out of focus, IMHO.

 

looks good. i love the second one!

 

Very nice. How do you like the TMAX film? I just picked up a couple of rolls the other day for the first time; a 100 and 400.

 

Noisy, but I LOVE the result. It adds to the pic. Love em.

 

Thats film grain you see

and I some real film grain.

 

I liked the TMAX. As you can see from the sky in the first pic, the grain is very smooth and fine for the speed of the film. It makes a slightly different look than Tri-X. The TMAX100 is really fine-grained. I like it. I am currently working through a bulk roll of Tri-X, not because I didn't like the TMAX400, but there's just so much you can do with Tri-X. Expose it at anywhere from 200ISO to 3200ISO with great results. It can look anywhere from gritty to smooth depending on how you expose it and develop it. I don't think Kodak makes a bad B&W, I don't think anyone does. They all look slightly different, is all. The new style films like TMAX and the Ilford Delta films have a modern, smooth look that I love, but then, the older style like Tri-X and HP5+ have a character to them, as well.

 

Good to hear about the TMAX. The store employee was telling me it will make a very smooth grain, which sounded very appealing to me. I think grain can add character to a photo, but 99% of the time I prefer it to be as smooth as possible.

Half-way through the tmax100 roll, can't wait to see the results at the end.

 

If you don't mind asking (I'm just starting to learn different technics), what would be purpose to set up ISO 1600 exposure with ISO 400 film? would it just come out little darker?