Diptychs!!

[Elaine Maria]

I'm just after starting a project which is a series of three diptychs.
Each diptych will have a half face portrait (Mine, and the two guys I live with)...and these three half portraits will have a coinciding image of each individuals bed, taken from above.
I've been using natural light from the window to light these...from a reading I took from my digital, f 5.6 with a ss of 1/8 sec seemed to show up a nice tonal range.

I'm shooting on a Nikon FM2 with a 50 mm and using Ilford HP5.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks for getting really rich texture detail and nice shadow and highlights...
Mucho Gracias x

 

[Knikki]

Hmm! Not sure, the best thing to do I would have thought is to bracket so take a number of images at -1.5, -1.0 then +1.5 , +2.0 stops either side of your meter reading.

Or use a hand heald light meter and use the incident light reading. :shrug:

Are you scaning these images then inkjet printing or doing it the traditional way in a darkroom?