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One of the quaint nooks in the Turku Castle. I love how much contrast there is always between the dark walls within, compared to the light that casts on the white walls.
Metered by eye, as I almost always do since I can't be bothered with keeping track of the batteries. Scanning with a Plustek OpticFilm 7600i, Vuescan for raws, Negpy for flipping into a positive.
Is this a printed picture or was scanned by something like agfa raw scanner. I am curious how did you digitalize it
Also wrote it in the text on the post, but it's scanned from a negative with a cheap(-ish) dedicated film scanner, and converted to positive digitally. I use NegPy which very closely mimicks the workflow of RA-4 printing (color fotosensitive paper used for printing photos in an analog minilab) in terms of how it calculates contrast, color balance etc.
Fun fact: The german word for windowsill is "window-bench" owing to these medieval benches. They were super useful before electric/gas light
That's an interesting piece of trivia. IIRC this nook is in the ladies common chamber, meaning light was required for chores that were common at the time (embroidery, knitting etc.). The best corner rooms in terms of getting light for as long as possible were usually reserved for scribes though, the scribes chamber was in the southwestern corner which is well lit for most of the day. Especially important in Finland with the short days in winter.
It's difficult to realize how few real solutions we had for artificial lighting back in the day. Even candles were a luxury just a couple hundred years ago, and required constant attention to trim the wicks. Oil lamps were smelly, beeswax and tallow melted too easily and availability was limited. The common folk here in Finland used small wooden shingles for lighting, which burned out relatively quickly and created a fire hazard. It also smoked a lot, and you had to use a bucket to catch the hot embers that dropped off as it burned.
Very cool. Well done how the white didn’t get too saturated. Nice contrast!
Thanks! I was pleasantly surprised with how well it turned out myself as well.