Green cast on B&W machine prints is pretty typical for a slightly out of adjustment print. That's likely what ahppened here. The paper is a dead giveaway that the prints are machine prints, it's colour RA-4 paper for a minilab.
-Adam On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:20 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've labelled the proofs from the wedding at the start of the > month, and made my first pass through the stack, cutting it into > four piles: "they don't need to see these", "huh, maybe, let me > look at them again with rested eyes", "composition is good and > subject is mandatory so check more closely for technical > problems later", and "oh yeah, I'm proud of these and can't wait > to see the newlyweds' reactions". > > I was hired mainly for the posed shots -- wedding party, family, > y'all know the drill -- but at nearly the last minute I got word > that the priest had no objection to non-flash photography during > the ceremony, so that got added. I wasn't paid to shoot the > reception, but I emptied my cameras there anyhow since I was > already there and still had frames left over on the rolls > already loaded in a couple of cameras. (One K1000 had rather a > lot of frames left in it, as its flash shoe stopped working > during the posed shots, so I loaded a spare body and kept going, > ignoring the one that failed until I got to the reception.) > > All the shots _I_ really like are from the ceremony, shot on TMZ > metered at 3200 in the K2. No surprise, given that I think my > strength is in shooting candids, not posed. But still, I am > moved to exclaim yet again, "Dayum, TMZ is _my_friend_!" :-) > (The conditions for shooting the ceremony included, "don't be > distracting," so I was shooting from the corners of the church, > behind everybody who was sitting in the pews. Fortunately the > layout of this church meant I could still get an angle to shoot > the exchange of rings, using a 100-300 f/4 zoom. I worried that > my moving around in the margins would be a distraction anyhow, > and similarly worried about the mirror slap / shutter noise, but > afterward the priest said he hadn't even noticed I was there and > a couple of folks in the pews concurred, so: yay!) > > One frame from the reception, shot on Tri-X, includes two women > wearing patterned dresses (a zebra print and a zigzaggy > geometric), and when I got to that print I saw _green_ in the > dresses while the whole rest of the frame looks like normal > black-and-white. Through a loupe, the green tint goes away. > The paper says "Kodak Royal Digital Paper" on the back, so I'm > guessing that the lab uses the same paper for colour and B/W > prints, but I'm still not entirely certain whether the effect is > a purely optical illusion based solely on the patterns and size, > or has to do with the patterns' having been printed on colour > paper -- some sort of interaction between the spacing in the > patterns and the resolution of either the paper or the printing > device. It's kind of startling. I guess I should mix up a > batch of chemicals and try to print it myself in the basement to > see what happens on regular BW paper. Is this an effect other > here have noticed before? > > In addition to the TMZ and Tri-X, I used Portra 800 and Portra > 400NC. No HIE because neither the grounds of the church nor the > reception site provided the sort of backdrop that makes IR so > much fun. > > For me the worst part of shooting weddings is the time between > shooting and getting the proofs back, when I have way too much > time to think, "Did I do as well as I thought I was doing while > I was shooting, or am I going to be embarassed and the couple > disappointed when the proofs come back?" The weddings I've shot > so far, I've felt really confident while shooting, and had a lot > of fun, but the doubts creep in afterward. Fortunately that > phase is now past, for this gig, as I have the proofs in hand to > go through. (I also stress _before_ a wedding, but not quite as > badly as I do afterward.) > > -- Glenn > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
