I must first say that you can see these much bigger if you click on them to compare. You remember all the film conversions I was talking about a few posts back? Calculating aperture and shutter speeds
Here is a perfect example of how that went wrong...
Jonathan called out the exposure meant for 400 speed film and I had 3200 speed film in my camera (well it was 1600 and I was pushing it to 3200
). Instead of halving three time for three stops of difference to let in less light for that very sensitive film, I doubled it three times and overexposed the bottom image by 6 stops!! Jon tells us that you can overexpose 400H 6 stops and it's still beautiful (which I hope it true), but this was true black and white which you are supposed to expose properly if you want it to look good (unless you are exposing the whole role as a different ISO in this case 3200 and then you tell the lab to develop it as if it really were 3200 and it looks like 3200 when you do that, did you know that about true black and white film? I never knew that!)
). Instead of halving three time for three stops of difference to let in less light for that very sensitive film, I doubled it three times and overexposed the bottom image by 6 stops!! Jon tells us that you can overexpose 400H 6 stops and it's still beautiful (which I hope it true), but this was true black and white which you are supposed to expose properly if you want it to look good (unless you are exposing the whole role as a different ISO in this case 3200 and then you tell the lab to develop it as if it really were 3200 and it looks like 3200 when you do that, did you know that about true black and white film? I never knew that!)
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