Re: need some help

[siteseer <siteseer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:50 PM 2/6/00 +0800, "sadaaqat khan" <danzig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'd like to ask a favour of any of you :

>http://handel.pacific.net.sg/~danzig/main/gallery

>Can you give some comments on my pics ? These are my latest efforts at IR
photography. I need to ask anyone if the highlights you see on the screen
can be translated to paper ? My guess is no. I had some ' old man ' do
prints for me, and the parts of the images where there was halation was
totally blown out witn no trace of detail.
>
>It could be his printing, cuz the rest of his printing is not too spectacular.
>
>Could anyone put a guess at the amount I over-exposed by ? I scanned from a
Nikon Coolscan LS-20 E straight and didn't adjust or play with the levels.
I'd put my guess at 2 stops over, the HIE was rated at 50,sometimes at 10 if
I remember corect (most reading from a Minolta 4F). I live in Singapore,
which is in the tropics. I think there may be more red in the spectrum here
than say in America where HIE's recommendations come from. Anyone else in
the tropics with any thoughts ? 

        Well, if you went to a printer who you knew does not do good work,
then poor work is what you get.  But anyway, if you see detail in the
negative, you definitely can get it on a print.  And the process is called
dodging.  It is where the print maker keeps light from pouring onto the
paper in the lighter areas of the scene with either a piece of paper of with
his fingertips, in order to even up the overall image.  If he holds back on
overall exposure time, the darker areas lose their detail, so this way, the
differnet parts of the print that need different amounts of light are
accounted for.

        Try a differnet printer, if there is one in your area.  As long as
your negatives look good, then your exposure is good.  A better printer will
be able to tell you all of this, as well as if you are under or over
exposing your negatives when you are shooting.



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