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Mon, 11, May, 2009 6:32am
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I like this a lot, the fisherman's not posing, and he's in an environment that immediately identifies his trade and task.
It could be said that he is too central, normally not a good thing, but in this case other than a small crop from the right-hand side to remove the last figure "4" and the unidentifiable object to the right with a balancing crop off the top, I would be inclined to print it very much as shown here. The dust marks can be retouched on the finished print without too much trouble.
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Bob
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Registered: August 2008 Location: London(ish) Posts: 2,746
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Mon, 11, May, 2009 2:49pm
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I'd agree with Dave's crop and would add that you seem to have got the exposure and print grade spot-on for my tastes.
About the dust - I would say prevention is worth more than all the spotting ink on the planet, especially if that is on RC glossy paper. I get seriously anal about dust on the negative and carrier and if I see it on a test print I hunt it down and irradicate it with all the fervour of a mother Alien after Sigourney Weaver...
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B&W Neil
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Registered: October 2008 Location: West Cornwall Posts: 4,264
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Thu, 18, June, 2009 7:02pm
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Yes a good person at work / candid study. Love the fag in the mouth! Print qualty looks good to me and you are going in the right direction - nice work for your first roll of film.
Neil.
------------------------------ "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle
Neil Souch
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pentaxpete
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Registered: February 2009 Location: Brentwood, Essex UK Posts: 390
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Sat, 4, July, 2009 3:56pm
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Yes, I remember MY first roll of film developing- it was in 1951 just after I joined the East Ham Grammar School Photo-Soc. and the Chemistry master showed us how to make up our own developers.... it was a roll of Ferrania Orthochromatic bought for 1/3d at Marston & Heards, Leybridge Road, Leytonstone, where I cycled from East Ham. I exposed it on my Mum's Brownie Hawkeye camera. I 'blacked out' the bathroom with a grey ex-Army blanket, put a couple of tablespoonfuls of home-made developer in a dish that my Mum used for Rice Pudding and I used to hatch Frog Spawn in, put some Red Paper around the light to make a 'safelight' as I was told being 'Ortho' the film could be developed under red light, then opened roll and tried to see-saw it through the dish of developer -- well, I saw it darken and thought it was too dark, and see-sawed it throuhgh some fixer, to find it was too THIN (Under-developed) and there were all sorts of marks on it BUT I thought it was the 'Bees-Knees'..... never lost the thrill after all those years--- I did an Ilford XP2 400 in C41 today ( NOT in the Frog-Spawn dish) and still got a thrill to see the wet negs ready to hang up in the bathroom !!!
------------------------------ Computerised and Slightly DIGITISED but FILM still RULES with ME !
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