>>3036314>contrast filtersDuring printing or during shooting the original negative?
The paper isn't quite blank. There are bits and pieces of the detail I see on the negative.
>>3036354I'm not sure what paper I'm using other than that it's RC paper. It was just leftovers that someone never claimed in a box that was not its original home. Left a note with my email, asking if it was free to take. All told it was probably a bit over a month.
I bought some fresh paper from some folks at the dark room and have been using that stuff with no issue. Haven't bothered to buy a whole box for printing, because I'd want to be very good at it before committing in cost.
>contrast grade?
Another element involved is that I'm shooting x-ray film, which is orthochromatic. Makes for a hell of a learning curve in blowing the fuck out of every photo. I mitigate this by using a wratten 44a filter on my light meter, but the transmission and sensitivity graphs of my film and filter don't quite line up. Cutoffs are almost exactly the same, while transmission at specific wavelengths are not exactly the same.
Still much better than taking readings without. Was much harder to meter before, because it's impossible for me to mentally adjust a reading without magic vision telling me how much red and yellow are in the ambient light at any given moment.
I'm saving up for an incident meter now, actually. It's next on the list.
>green grass meters the same as middle greyWhat do you mean by this? I thought that the whole point of a spot meter is that you're choosing /what/ is going to be middle grey.
Can anyone answer my questions about DSLR scanning in
>>3036297 ?
>>3036411I don't know what I'm consciously doing wrong here. I try my best to choose what I think is a middle tone of lighting, and always end up wrong. All the more frustrating because I actually handle lighting okay on some shots. Very fucking confusing.
