The Agfa Ultra film is a very short range neg film, with
about the same latitude as a long range slide film (an oxymoron
I realize). The top image looks reasonably well exposed for the
sky, but the range of the scene is too long for the film/paper
combination, and the foreground is definitely underexposed by a
bunch. The second in the series looks like it could probably be
printed down somewhat to give a better sky rendering, though I
would bet there is not much by way of shadow detail, so trying
to get more foreground would likely be futile. The bottom
picture is, if anything, less exposed than the middle one, if
the scan is accurate, by around a half stop. I suspect that at
30 seconds exposure, you are running into some reciprocity
failure with the film. I recall that Ultra is a bit twitchy that
way.
So, from looking at your scans only, I would make an
educated guess that you have underexposed your negatives by at
least a stop, and have shot a scene with an exposure range that
is longer than you can capture with the combination of film and
paper that you used.
Hope this helps
William Robb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Some Bad Photos I Took
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for everyones response, they were all very detailed and
helpfull.
>
> The film i was using was Agfa Ultra 50 Print film.
>
> There were all shot an aperture of F8 - F11 and a shutter
speed of 30
> seconds. I was using manual focus, not sure why that one looks
unfocused,
> look okay in the print.
>
> I would have shot a slide film, but this was all i had at the
time and it
> was a spur of the moment thing.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Jones
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