Another week goes by…
And what a week! Politically anyway. Not just from the perspective of what’s just happened in the US, but at work, the issues I mentioned in my previous post just won’t go away. I think the best strategy is to keep a low profile. Once the project goes live on December 1st, there will be so much back-slapping that whatever caused the original issues will have been forgotten.
Still on to more interesting things… I made three black and white prints using Permajet’s Fibre-based glossy paper this afternoon. It’s a thick, luxurious paper with a slightly textured finish. I used the Permajet ICC profile for the 3800 and the prints were spot on! Nice deep blacks, plenty of shadow detail. I would have taken hours to produce these in the darkroom. One was a scan from a very old negative taken with a Bronica ETRSi and 50mm lens.
The size of the negative meant that the scan resolution was relatively low and consequently there wasn’t much work to do in the cleaning department. It took a while to get the print to look “just so”…here’s an electronic version. Let me know what you think…
Wind-blown grasses and young oak trees in Savernake Forest, England
I’m in two minds as to whether use this shot for tomorrow night’s “Trees” competition at Shrivenham Camera club. The alternatives are:
Avenue of trees, Coate Water, Swindon
or
Horse Chestnut, Lydiard Park, Swindon
They all look lovely as prints. The last two by the way, were taken with a Leica M8 and the superb 28mm Elmarit ASPH lens. I treated myself to this lens in September and I have been blown away by it’s sharpness. It has become the ‘body cap’ on my M8.
The Horse Chestnut is my favourite of the three. This was quite a tricky shot, as I was shooting into the light. Rather than use the camera’s meter, I opted to use a hand-held meter and take an incident reading. It took very little post-processing in Lightroom to produce what I believe is a “fine” print. There were no blown highlights and there’s oodles of details in the shadows. This is definitely one for the wall!