That is very smooth Tristan. I might give up my unreasonable and
self-imposed Kodak ban to try Tri-X on the strength of that lovely
photo.
Call me a chauvinist, but I prefer to use what little British
excellence there is in photography. However, for that sort of
tonality...
... will the film find me a suitable subject and make the right
exposure for me as well?
;-)
Your smiley noted, but there's a grain of good thought there, still.
My belief is that B&W is the most appropriate training and re-tuning medium
around. Tri-X has traditionally been (might still be, though I'm not sold
yet on this new formulation) "where it all begins." I recommend it warmly,
though I suppose any B&W film would do.
The reason is this: to shoot B&W film forces the photography to compose his
thoughts through the lens in the simplest of terms--light and form. Think
of this activity in terms of a 101 art class, where the teacher walks in
the first day, hands everyone paper and charcoal, then asks them to
practice drawing a circle.
I'm not an artist and I couldn't draw a circle to save my life. Similarly,
I don't think of myself as an especially able photographer, at least not
past ensuring acceptable exposure and reasonably good focus. You see, I
lack an artist's eye. I do, however, possess a couple of useful qualities:
I recognize that which I do not know, I can imagine that which I cannot
actually see.
I hope that doesn't sound like poetry. Should it, things might become more
clear if you'd drop the color side of it cold and work only with B&W film
stock for awhile. Use B&W as a means to bring your photographic senses back
into true, and to keep them honest.
This works for me. I habitually have one of my cameras loaded with B&W, as
a rule Tri-X. It's an old friend.
Tris
Chris
On Tuesday, Mar 18, 2003, at 23:43 Europe/London, Tris Schuler wrote:
The following image represents my first brush with the new Tri-X Pan
emulsion.
http://home.mindspring.com/~tristanjohn/archivedphotos/
ReflectioninConcertwithNoise.jpg
This image was made at a John Stewart concert given at Casa de Flores
in San Carlos, California on Saturday evening 15 March 2003. The women
lower left frame is the wife of Stewart's long-time bassist Dave
Batty. The shadow on the wall is from Stewart playing his acoustic
guitar on stage in front of the mike and stand.
OM-4T, Zuiko 100mm F2 @f/2.8 for 1/60, Tiffen multi-coated Sky, motor
drive.
Anyone else on the list working with this stuff?
Tris
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