Been a while since I posted here.. Anyways, just got home a test roll of Fuji 400H taken with a Canon EOS 10 + 35L.
Converted some of them since I was not quite satisfied with the colors.
alpenglowing - thanks. What's going on in #3? Is that grain or fog/mist? Or both!
zalmy - you could always use BW400CN or XP2. I never totally understood the allure of these chromogenic films, except that they are supposedly less grainy than D76 film. A fun comparison would be either of these against Portra 400.
Love the grain in that last one alpenglowing! I've been desperate for some fog around here. Checking the forecast every day. No luck.
8x10 HP5+ (yeah I duotoned it):
Info for those who care:
This is the Marathon Oil Refinery on the Mississippi River in St Paul Park, MN. I think Marathon may have sold it last year though. On the left is the Rock Island swing bridge which opened in 1895. It was closed in 1999 and almost completely demolished in 2009. It was bought by Inver Grove Heights and converted into a pier/park.
Developed in a BTZS tube with Pyrocat HD at a dilution of 1:1:100 for 13 minutes. I think I am going to try the two bath / divided Pyro method next time.
Could have given it more exposure for sure. I was mainly interested in the 8x10 Velvia I shot. I am sending that out tomorrow, hopefully it turns out. I don't think b&w fit this scene as much as color. With the featureless sky there isn't much going on and obviously the color doesn't come through. I am hoping the Velvia captured some great color as the sun was just coming up behind the right bit of smoke and lighting everything up pretty good.
I actually had these developed at the local camera shop here in Mobile. I do my own scanning at home, but I haven't done any work in a darkroom in quite a few years.
Malkovic wrote:
alpenglowing: Nice ektar shots! Love the colors.
Been a while since I posted here.. Anyways, just got home a test roll of Fuji 400H taken with a Canon EOS 10 + 35L.
Great shots as well!
corposant wrote:
alpenglowing - thanks. What's going on in #3? Is that grain or fog/mist? Or both!
A little bit of both - we had fog all day long a couple weeks back and I just couldn't resist using this grainy Ilford film.
Zaitz wrote:
Love the grain in that last one alpenglowing! I've been desperate for some fog around here. Checking the forecast every day. No luck.
8x10 HP5+ (yeah I duotoned it):
Thanks! And great exposure - I'm digging the dark look.
On his flickr page a couple weeks/months ago, he said he was having trouble finding inspiration for photography right now. Or something along those lines.
On his flickr page a couple weeks/months ago, he said he was having trouble finding inspiration for photography right now. Or something along those lines.
I also noticed some broken bones on his Flickr page - let's hope for a speedy recovery!
Here are 3 shots taken with my IIIg, scanned on a Coolscan 5000 ! The film was long expired, stayed far too long in the camera... Anyway, I quite like the results. Here we go...
thrice wrote:
Your blacks are rather green/yellow there corposant. Nice composition though.
Indeed - the artificial lighting wasn't wonderful, and the push in processing did not help. I was also curious to see how much of the highlights and shadows I could keep - kind of amazing, really. I shot a bunch of Portra 400 at 1600 last week - I am wondering how wonky it looks.
