>>4045302The photo looks good; it's a backlit subject with center-weighted exposure settings. I don't see where the low contrast would be; you've exposed for the foreground subject and the shadows of the photograph are both deep and detailed.
This being said, Foma films do generally have lower contrast than Ilford's, because Ilford's films are pre-opinionated from the factory with regard to how certain colours etc. should be rendered. That's where the idea of only using light yellow filters with FP4+, or none, comes from; it's already got a "realistic" colour response curve, so there's little gain from tweaking it further. Similarly they have a contrast curve that makes good FP4+ negs print "straight" with very little darkroom tweaking.
Whereas more traditional films like old-ass Foma that's broadly the same as it was in 1970, those will respond like an oldschool film in terms of both density and colour. A third variation would be Rollei's RPX 400 (based on Agfa formulas they bought), which is linear in its contrast response sort of like you'd expect a German engineer to prefer it, but at the same time somewhat opinionated for colour so very good at e.g. separating the bands of a rainbow-coloured pride flag.
