So this is some sort of contact sheet from my first test shoot with medium format camera and Ilford HP5 Roll film. It's been ages since i used this camera, and I didn't remember to use the pop up magnifier to focus (but I did wonder why it was so hard to focus! D'Oh) As I was shooting at f2.8, the results were as expected -soft - with the exception of a couple.
This was one of the better ones (with a couple tweeks in photoshop):
The reason for buying the low iso films is that I am going to shoot with some off camera flash (hopefully). I have also bought some wireless radio flash triggers ("Poverty Wizards")
Another test shoot was done on my DSLR (nikon D700) with some off camera flash..
My flash triggers (the old ones, £12 eBay) were not very reliable, and so the results were a bit hit and miss, (story of my life!)
As well as flash, I also did some experimentation with finding natural, beautiful light.
After a presentation to the class/critique, the consensus was that the off camera flash images were the best and so this is the direction in which I intend to continue.
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