Old Prints

I just sent my roll of Neopan for printing, so I dug out my archives and printed a couple of old interesting stuff that was never seen before.

I still like this photograph alot, and I have no idea why. Most people here would probably think that its a very plain photograph, that's what I think too... but I'm just drawn to it.

A little lost detail in the shadow area. The scanner the shop uses is not sensitive enough to pick it up. The people printing this photograph also didn't fill the lights for me. Had to do it myself, albeit with much more limitations, since I'm scanning the prints and not the film.

A revisit of the cute kid here. Bumped up the contrast and saturation to get it looking like this. Apparently both Kodak Gold and Fuji Superia makes for very subdued looking photographs. I'm going to use slides and black and white exclusively now. I'll prefer either end of the spectrum, either no colours or saturated colours. The compromise just doesn't cut.

Ditto. Cute chap huh? (: Almost as charming as me when I was a kid :PP Lol

Dr Ng Eng Hen during the opening ceremony of the Ngee Ann Kongsi thingy thingy. I love the shallow depth of field. I'm wondering if I should have included Cheng's face in the depth of field... I think this is fine. :P

Same stuff here. Performance during the opening ceremony.

Ditto. I should think that terrible yellow cast at wall is the result of the lighting's colour, not some strange artifacts due to the use of florescent lighting.

Again, lost shadow details with the scanner and printer... this needs substantial darkroom work to print properly... time to test my sister's skills at burn and dodge. Heh

Same here. The scanner and printer lost the highlight detail this time. The clouds got burnt out though it is very apparent in the film. Sigh.

Just terrible... this is a very high dynamic range photograph with extreme shadow and highlight details... after the scanner and printer got this out... all I've got is a black mass of twigs. Blah.

Conclusion: I should give more tolerance for the edge of the film. Else the composition's going to come out funny. Just look at the 2nd last photograph. I lost both the apex of the cone as well as the cross on top of it. Sigh. Well I'm still happy with the 1st photograph though. :D

Gonna ask my sis to print 2 copies of the 1st photograph. One original image and one mirror image. I'm inclined to think that I'll prefer the mirror image version. Then I'll decide if I'll send it to ruby for darkroom sepia toning. :D When I get more cash, I'll commision a print for that photograph at A2 size maybe? ((:

Suspected Phoon father... hahas, nah I'm sure he's not... just that the family semblance is in there....... an uncle maybe? :P I'm nasty. Lol. Nah this is to show the shitty grain I get from the Kodak when underexposed. It came out so unsaturated that after re-saturation it is still.. like that. It looked like a fading print from 20 years ago.