I often hear about how "fake" digital photography is - and while anything can be pushed to far - digital photography is the most "real" photography possible. I'm able to use Photoshop to make a scene look exactly as it appeared to my eye - the exact color, correcting lens defects, straightening out buildings etc. Thats why its so perfect for documenting things - time and place - the images in yesterday's post show exactly what it looked like to be standing on that parking garage at that moment.
But there is also a truth in black and white - a different kind of truth. Maybe its something like Hunter S. Thompson's "fiction is truer than any fact" thing... Or maybe it's seeing something you've seen a million times in a new and different light - so you are actual seeing it - not idly passing by.
"Overpass in Light"
"Direction"
"Federal Courthouse"
"Concrete Grain"
"The Towpath"
"Lines"
This was kind of a weird roll of film for me - I loaded this roll a while ago into my Pentax K1000 and when I went to shoot it I thought it was Kodak TMax 400 - turns out it was Fomapan 100. So I accidentally underexposed the roll by two stops. The technical sheet said that this film can tolerate a couple stops of underexposure but I still decided to push it an extra minute in HC-110. This worked out well for the photos that didn't need a lot of shadow detail and actually got me the contrast I like in the above photos. I underexpose Tri-X like this all the time when I want that dramatic sky....
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