Bob Sumitro
New member
Relaxing after a day of hardwork
This one is a candid shot of my 3 year-old nephew. He's a bit camera shy so I had to pretend that I had no interets in taking his picture and wait until he's completely forgot that I was there with a camera, before I press the shutter.
I took this with a M6 classic, TMax 400, 50 f/2 cron at f/5.6, 1/30 and a flash light (nikon sb22 set at Automatic with a bounce card). Film scanned at a photo lab and resized for web and no post processing cause I don't know how to.
I'm completely a beginner in B&W photography, I've taken so far only 3 rolls of B&W films. Being a newbie, my major problems are exposure and pre-visualizing how the pictures will look like.
I haven't been able to nail the exposure with B&W. I use flash for this shoot (for the whole roll actually) cause with a flash I can pretty much guess how the exposure will be. Without flash, with only available light indoor with my M6 built in meter, it's either under exposure or overexposure. The results are completely different than what I had in mind ... what I imagine it would look ... when I pressed the shutter. I never have this problem when I shoot color. The results with color are usually the way I want it.
But this one prety much meets my expectation and I'm quite happy with it.
Critiques, comments and tips are really welcome.
Thanks, bob
This one is a candid shot of my 3 year-old nephew. He's a bit camera shy so I had to pretend that I had no interets in taking his picture and wait until he's completely forgot that I was there with a camera, before I press the shutter.
I took this with a M6 classic, TMax 400, 50 f/2 cron at f/5.6, 1/30 and a flash light (nikon sb22 set at Automatic with a bounce card). Film scanned at a photo lab and resized for web and no post processing cause I don't know how to.
I'm completely a beginner in B&W photography, I've taken so far only 3 rolls of B&W films. Being a newbie, my major problems are exposure and pre-visualizing how the pictures will look like.
I haven't been able to nail the exposure with B&W. I use flash for this shoot (for the whole roll actually) cause with a flash I can pretty much guess how the exposure will be. Without flash, with only available light indoor with my M6 built in meter, it's either under exposure or overexposure. The results are completely different than what I had in mind ... what I imagine it would look ... when I pressed the shutter. I never have this problem when I shoot color. The results with color are usually the way I want it.
But this one prety much meets my expectation and I'm quite happy with it.
Critiques, comments and tips are really welcome.
Thanks, bob