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- Highland Park, CA
shot with a Leica M6 and 50mm summicron
m6ilford (21) by QmungousPhoto.com, on Flickr
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Very nice tones, great resolution.
Thanks Jim.Very nice - I've always enjoyed HP5+ for its great range. Good eye - I especially like the first one.
Could be the film - it's very nicely graded with smooth transitions IMO, but certainly not very contrasty. However, this is actually quite desirable because it's reasonably easy to change (or correct) contrast in post because of this - scan to TIFF (no compression), then do post using curves and black/white point correction before exporting to JPEG; the contrast slider and/or a zone system tool might help as well - darktable offers all of these; but it's also simple enough to do from within Polarr ... I took the freedom of downloading your JPEG, and even with that (i.e. from non-optimal data, but a nicely balanced image), Polarr made it almost trivial to enhance contrast without ruining the image (I deleted the result - it's your image; but if you would like me to, I can easily redo it).You are so right, the contrast is a bit off as the images do look a bit flat. I am still trying out to find a good work flow but it's so confusing with all of the information out there!!! I might have got it right here but still not happy.
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