Night Photography

Here's one I took when we lived in Fiji a few years ago:

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Mamiya 645, 45mm lens, APX100, flash on the trees at the end of the exposure.
 
Recently on Munich's Oktoberfest:
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BTW, this is a composite of four BW conversions of a photograph that was originally shot in color. No ordinary bw film could have possibly delivered exactly this result. The original picture had a multicolored illumination and showed blatant, screaming and glaring colors all over the spectrum. The secret behind this picture is that the four conversions mimicked four drastically different spectral 'film sensitivities'.
 
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So many good and various pictures here ! It will take me a complete afternoon to look at each one and try to learn something for the coming nights...
robert, not yet sure how and what try ... I have some delta 400 in the fridge...and the cv 35/1,7 on the table...
 
Lindau, Germany

Lindau, Germany

my small contribution from the past, , delta 400, not sure which camera, probably Bessa R with cv 35/1,7 hand held
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M7, delta 400, Berlin, Germany hand held.

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From the first film I shot using my Hexar RF: M-Hexanon 35/2.0, f4 @ 1/10s handheld, shot on Kodak BW40 CN @ ISO 400. Slightly cropped plus agressive unsharp masking to accentuate traces of blur:

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Very nice Arjay!

I tried BW40 CN only once and have it stacked as one of the films, I don't like and plan to use again (same as TMax).

Yours looks great.
 
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I tried BW40 CN only once and have it stacked as one of the films, I don't like and plan to use again (same as TMax).
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Thanks for your compliments!

I feel the same way about BW 400 CN and Tmax. OTOH, I feel both of these films have specifically been optimized for scanning. When I do pp on the scanned image files, I apply a gradation curve by default that boosts dark shadows to get vastly improved tonality.

On BW 400CN, this works only if I expose it at EI 200 to 250, or else I get banding in the shadow areas. IN the picture above, I was very lucky not to have visible banding traces in important parts of the picture.
 
I mostly photo at night in winter. Just because it's dark doesn't mean I should let all that time go to waste! I sometimes light things up using about 9,000ws of portable flash. Here are two shots I made with my 1937 Voigtland Bessa this past month:


Kent in SD


Hotel Sacred Heart,
Slumbering Diesels

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