Analog film photography and cameras

Really like the 1st one lovely light. 2nd one looks like a good moment :)

Thank you! It was, Christmas day on Brighton beach. My girlfriend and her younger sister, had no idea I took it. Its a nice memory

Lovely shot of the ferns.

A few from some urban exploration last week, taken on Poundland Vista.

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Love the first one. The light is unreal.

Holy shit, that first one... Looks unreal.

Thanks guys, its probably my favourite film shot I've taken

A few from the Strathpuffer (24 hr Mtb race) taken in between my laps as a team of 4.

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Nice shots, especially like the one with the house with the press boards, and the portraits!
Good to see you shooting so much film!

@PhilDAS - great, like all three of them!
Good to remember that one does not necessarily need the newest and best equipment to produce great images..

Thanks @ItkI I really do love the anticipation of film and the more deliberate way of taking pictures. Shot my first 2 rolls of 120 medium format on my Rolleicord this week.....Can't wait to see the results.

Nice. I'm hoping to do more film stuff this year and get a 120 rangefinder of some sort, if funds allow.

Anyone here developed much at home? Would love to do some c41 but the problem I have is scanning.

Help!
Not sure how to describe it but a lot of my photos are coming out hazy and the colours are flat and I'm not sure why. What am I doing wrong?

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I like the first one, too. At first I thought the ferns were some strange species of animal. Very unusual.

By the looks of it the film got roasted in the xray at the airport.

Could always send a couple of frames to get scanned somewhere else and eliminate the possibility that it is a scanning issue.

Look underexposed to me, is your meter accurate?

Not sure. Is there an obvious way of testing?

two photos taken within minutes of each other, on the same film, in the same location.

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What do the negs look like if you hold them up to the light? Do they looks very "thin" - ie the highlights in the photo when viewed on the neg should show up as very dark. Can be useful if you have a good negative from another camera to compare.

What camera?
I'm wondering if it's the opposite - if those two photos are using the same settings (forgot to adjust aperture or speed) then what's good for the closeup would be very overexposed for the beach scene. The scanning might be trying to pull information out of the overexposed neg so you get that dullness.
If the neg looks very dark when you hold it up to the light, it's overexposed.

If you're getting very underexposed shots mixed in with good exposures - it might be when you change direction, and sunlight hits the camera's lightmeter, confusing it. Look at where the meter is on your camera, is it possible for sunlight to hit it directly, even though the sun isn't in the frame?

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It's a Pentax MX with a 50mm lens. 400 iso (which probably doesn't help in the scorching daylight) I'm fairly confident that I adjusted the aperture so the light meter showed green (ie: sufficient light) between each shot.

I could understand if a few shots out of the roll were under/over exposed due to user error. But most of the roll has that slightly washed out affect.

I took 13 flights in the last 6 weeks so the films have been through some x-rays. but this roll was particularly bad.

Balls.

check the negs.
if it's from x-rays the whole film will be darker, not just within the frames (compare the "base"/background tone with another of the same type of film)

@malandro

As above. Look at the negs and go from there.

A thought: are you using alkaline batteries? Their voltage fades effecting metering and that is most noticeable in bright light.

hmmm,

@hoefla -I had a look at the negs and they don't appear obviously darker than any other negatives i have around the perfs/boarders.

@miro_o - This might be the clincher: there was a day when no matter how wide the aperture / long an exposure I set, the light meter was saying there was not enough light (it was bright sunshine). I then took the batteries out and reinserted them and that seemed to improve things. And yes, they are alkaline batteries.