Arizona Treks

 Og my photographs this top one was the first photo I had ever noticed this effect in.  Soft, grainy but yet,  sharp.  I know the room well and it always has nice soft light.  During certain times of the day there are shafts of light coming in but I have never been successful in taking advantage of those, always way too much contrast to really make it work.  But, the sink area photo has this effect as shown below in the 100% crop of the photo.

As you can see here, this is a great effect for this photo.  So what made it happen, I am not totally clear on that yet.  One component is soft diffuse light.  I could be wrong but it seems as though plus processing also tends to enhance the effect.  So how to recognize when the effect will be there is somewhat of a puzzle still.  Through experimentation I hope to continue to nibble away at the answer.

An example of one that was shot in  very soft light and plus processed is this one from Fort Ross in California.  It was a long exposure on ISO 400 TMax film.  The Kitchen was shot on ISO 100 so perhaps that is part of the equation.  The 100% crop below shows none of the same effect.