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24 JUN 9009 David Mingay

Jun 24: Last guess

I'm facinated by this plant. I've no idea what it is, but it lives in a pot down the side of the house and I can't help taking photographs of it. This is the last frame of my 'guessed exposure' film, scanned from the neg. The prints that I got back from Truprint were a bit, well, rubbish really. Typical of machine prints, they're all pushed towards a mid tone. Only when I started scanning the negs themselves did I realise how good the free film and guessed exposures were. My own scans were better than the same film scanned at Peak Imaging. This one has been given a bit of extra 'pop' in Lightroom 'cos I like it like that.

Compare it to the scan of the print in the composite pic:


Pentax MX ,Pentax-M 50mm f1.7,Truprint 200
'Guessed' exposure. 1/125 sec @f5.6 or something full exif

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Linda Alstead08-Jul-2009 21:43
it's a hebe