What's up with this?

clayne

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This is a composite of 2 adjacent frames scanned from a single roll of NPS 160 in 135 format shot a while back ago but just recently processed in Arista C-41 chems.

Shot is downtown KL, 2008.

What I'm curious about is that nothing else on the roll has the dynamic range these 2 frames seem to have - and at the time nothing special was done - no goofing around with HDR or anything of the like. I noticed after scanning that the frames almost looked like an illustration but upon viewing at 100% one can of course recognize shadow detail and grain. The strange part is that none of the highlights have gone through the roof either.

Maybe I was screwing around and it was shot at +1 or +2, I really can't remember now, but the results are pretty cool, even if not typically my thing.



Larger: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4662324615_4ce850bcaa_b.jpg
100% size: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4662324615_fcd9c64368_o.jpg
 

hrst

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Yes you probably overexposed a stop or two. Current C-41 films have quite a long linear range so overexposing usually does no harm to highligths so easily, but opens up shadows.
 
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