(About a girl and her dog)
This was taken at bedtime, under very dim light. The film was therefore pushed quite a bit during post processing to lighten things (I should have instead “pushed” it during development).
I’m actually amazed that I ended up with an image that I like, given my previous attempts to capture such scenes in my kitchen without the aid of daylight have never produced satisfactory results, with digital cameras (M9, M8, D3S, D3, D700, etc.) anyway. Although film doesn’t make up for poor lighting, it certainly is more forgiving.
—Peter.
↑Leica M3, Voigtländer Nokton 40mm @ f/1.4, and Kodak Tri-X 400.
Prosophos 
Lovely capture! Great moment!
Thank you Alex. It’s often difficult to catch C in a spontaneous moment, but having a dog near her helps!
Beautiful image.
Film and lightning are one of the biggest challenges, since I replaced my DSLR for a film rangefinder, however, when you get it right the results are wonderful.
Leonardo, a brave man you are to have ditched digital completely. But you are so right… all my best digital images leave me wanting more — the film ones never do…
Thanks,
Peter.
Great photo, Peter! I am curious what your shutter speed was on this since you didn’t push the film, particularly when you say you couldn’t get this with the M9…if you shot this at box speed, I would think ISO 400 shouldn’t be a problem at all with the M9. How many stops underexposed do you think your negative was? I’m curious as I’m playing around with Rodinal semi-stand development and experimenting with various ISOs (250-1600) on the same roll, which supposedly holds the highlights and allows for some shadow detail. Haven’t developed the “variable” roll yet (hopefully I will this afternoon) but wondering what’s going to come out of it. Hopefully, B&W has as much latitude in my hands as what I’ve read about!
Thanks for sharing.
This was shot at 1/30, and was two stops underexposed. With the M9, I probably would have shot at 1/60 to avoid blur (I find the vibration is worse on the M9 than the M3). But even, if everything was equal, the poor light would have produced yucky (technical word) results with a digital file. I’m not saying the film has turned bad light into good light here, but I am saying I am pleased with the results.
I wish you good luck with your Rodinal experiments!
—Peter.