Yesterday's broken cloud and bright spells are today replaced with leaden skies and light drizzle: Perfect conditions for shooting some graphic images for the black and white treatment. In my film-shooting days this would involve taking whatever colour stock I was using out of the camera and loading up with what was then considered a "fast" emulsion, such as Ilford's HP5 (400 ISO). I would then up-rate this a couple of stops to 1600 ISO (or higher) to produce grainy, gritty images - compensating for the underexposure at the development stage.
These days it all so much simpler as I shoot normally and convert the photograph to monochrome in Adobe Photoshop. The only real drawback is that modern digital sensor arrays are designed to produce, as far as practical, noise-free images, so I add some digital noise to simulate the effect of film grain.
The woman walking along the shoreline at Canford Cliffs, Dorset, was the last exposure of the day before the weather closed in and the light failed.
50mm f/1.8 AF Nikkor. 1/125 second at f/11. +0.33 EV compensation. ISO 400
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