The photo below is a digital scan of a black and white print made last week at a wedding for friends Julie and Brandon. I picked up two rolls of Kodak Pro BW400CN before the wedding after reading reviews online, but mostly because I found it at a local pharmacy. It was that film or the El Cheapo variation.
I heard that they had a wedding photographer, so I assumed he or she would be shooting posed traditional color photos. I thought that the black and white would be something different, and I'd shoot candids.
The BW400CN develops in C-41 chemicals, which are for developing color film negatives. After developing one roll after the wedding I had a dozen frames left on the second roll, and waited three days to shoot the end of the roll. The Nikon N90s got 25 frames from each 24-frame roll.
I don't like this film much. It tends to underexpose by about 1/3 Stop for my taste. There's something off about the look of the prints, too. I expected more pronounced grades of mid tones. It was probably an operator problem, of course...
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I don't know exactly what it is but I like B&W photos. I'm not sure I find this one overexposed, as a matter of fact perhaps a fill flash might have better illuminated the grooms face. Perhaps not at the distance. Anyway, I like it.
ReplyDeleteI thought the film tended to underexpose by about 1/3 stop. Luckily, I guessed this by the end of the first roll and used +1/3 exposure compensation. The photo above was taken after the compensation.
ReplyDeleteThe place it looks underexposed is the prints - and that is just to my eye...