Ilford -revisit

Hmm, 5 new prints from the last roll of Ilford FP4. I only scanned 4 cause' the other one isn't that great after all. These are printed downstairs... 5 prints for $1.25 = 25cents each. The print quality is fine but the colour came out greenish... it's fine for scans but that just means that the prints themselves are unattractive. Sigh. It is as simple as desaturation on the scanned files before printing and they didn't do it, I'm disappointed.

A bright yellow caution sign at the entrance to a walkway in La Salle. Makes the dark background look ominous doesn't it? Better than the coloured version in my opinion, though I think if it was shot in Velvia, it would have been superb. I'd prefer if I got nearer to the caution sign to bring the viewer's attent smack centre on the caution and the falling man's symbol. But much as my position is awkward already, I'm not about to lie on my belly in my full grey. Sides, I think I was nearing the limit of the closest focus of my lens already.

This lady was very interesting cause' she was lying at the side of the main walkway through La Salle just leisurely reading away. Shot with the now sold 70-200mm F4L at 200mm approx 1/30s shutter. Another testament to my human tripod ability. Trust me it wasn't easy. I think I took 2-3 shots at her and they all look sharp on film. Chose this cause' it had the nicest composition.

Tried my hand at pseudo architecture photography while actually focusing on the street photography aspects. 24mm F2.8. Seems a tad too wide for normal street photography. This photograph seems fine for me though. Mm, maybe I can mount the 50mm on my film and the 24mm on my APS-C sized Canon 400D [effective angle of view = 38.4mm lens] and go snapping away. I really need to experiment with street photography and I've got a roll of Superia 400 to waste. Really waste cause' I'm really sick of that film by now. I think even Kodak does better. I'm currently trying to waste a roll of Superia 800 I bought last year... well at least it is a fast film.

Same 24mm, focus placed on lines and architecture now. 2nd favourite after the photograph of the lady on the grass.

Hope you all had fun browsing through (:

If anyone actually enlarged a frame to look at the photograph and realise that they're all very grainy, it's not the film's fault. The film's ISO of 125 meant that I had to shoot 1 stop faster than the film's rating to capture all these. My sis developed the film for me and she refused to push process for me cause' she doesn't know how to. So... effectively they're all shadow details and the film is underdeveloped. Yep. The Ilford FP4 is a great film for fine grain work. No excuse for the Superia 400 though. They're shot as the camera's meter tells me and professionally developed at Shalom Labs.