Question: Color

[kb3lms]

I shoot about half color negative and half b/w. Spring and fall are times for color film to me so almost everything that time of year is color negative, mostly C-41 but I fool around with ECN-2 from time to time. This spring though, I did finish off a nearly full roll in the K-1000 that turned out to be TMAX 100 which was kind of interesting for spring subjects. All of it is processed in my basement.

I have been hell bent to print all the color myself and have the chems and paper but not the time for all the photography things I like to try to do. So I may scan some of it and send it out just to get it on paper. My daughter bought me a little Pandigital scanner last year at BBB which does a really respectable job for what it cost. All automated and the files are perfect to send off to Shutterfly or Wally-world.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

I print from transparencies (analogue-to-digital hybridized) all the time. It's not so long ago I was touched by the B&W bug but it didn't take off given my very long standing in production of colour work for exhibition and display. It seems historically that the most B&W printing I've had done is from my pinhole camera in the 6x6 format; I really do like the effect and each mono image has pride of place somewhere nearby the big and pricey colour jobs. At the moment I have Acros 100 loaded in my XA, and I don't know why... :confused:

 

[hoffy]

When I picked up film again a few years ago, my original plan was going to be film for black and white and digital for colour. That lasted about 3 months.

At the moment I am probably 60/40 b&w/colour. I do print in both , but I am finding colour harder to get a handle on. I am not giving up on it though (but I have started to neg scan a bit more)