On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:25:37 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>My first question is WHAT was overexposed. The prints
>or the negatives? If the negatives are very, very
>dark, then it may well be a camera/metering issue.
>But if you're basing your judgement on the prints,
>then there's no way to tell what might be wrong.
>
>You say "when there's sky in the shot." Do you mean
>the SKY is overexposed, or the entire print is? If
>it's just the sky, then you've encountered a classic
>B&W situation. A blue sky, on most B&W film, will
>look much lighter than it seems to your eye. To get
>dark skies shoot with a yellow (slightly darker),
>orange (moderately dark) or red (very dramatic,
>especially when there are cloulds to give strong
>contrast).
>
>If none of this information is useful, then please
>give us a little more detail about the problem.
Bob -
Thanks, that does help me understand what's going on. I didn't want
to get into such a detailed off-topic description of what was wrong,
but I think it IS the prints that are overdeveloped. As I mentioned
in another post, there was one series of about 12 shots of a hallway
that I did to compare wide-angle focal lengths, and these were
severely underexposed on the negative - very very light negative. I'm
guessing that they had to set the machine to give something reasonable
on these shots, and that caused the rest of the roll to be over
exposed in the printing process. Sound feasible?
Besides that, there ARE some washed out skies, and I am familiar with
the need for filters to control that. In those cases though, the
entire print was too light and contrast-less, but I think that may be
due to the above.
I should add that some of the prints did come out just about right.
Ken Durling
Website http://home.earthlink.net/~kdurling/
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