rattymouse wrote:
Gorgeous cat shot on a gorgeous film!!
thanks.
we've got two from the same litter and the little (and by little I mean ~6kg) things love to roll around on the floor. I only took two pictures but maybe I should have taken more; the light was pretty nice that morning.
I actually get negatives with lower contrast than my uploaded pictures suggest since I use rodinal. I overexpose by 1/3rd of a stop and rely on the compensating effect of the Rodinal to keep me safe. This has given me my favorite tonality out of any film/dev combo though I realize it's not for everyone.
Nice contrast, assuming its Acros.
What are your details for the Rodinal soup?
I am just now getting into developing my own & have a few Acros 4x5 negs to work on
dswiger wrote:
Nice contrast, assuming its Acros.
What are your details for the Rodinal soup?
I am just now getting into developing my own & have a few Acros 4x5 negs to work on
Thanks
Dan
yes, it is acros. acros happens to be my favorite film but I have only shot HP5+ in 4x5 so this is strictly what I do for 135/120 though I suppose it shouldn't make any difference.
so, I develop at an EI of 100 but shoot at 80.
recipe is 1:50 at 20C, 13.5 minutes with 30 seconds of inversion to start (and a few taps) and then either 5 seconds worth of inversions at the top of every minute or 5 total inversions every 30 seconds if I shot >75% of the roll in low contrast light ( you don't need as much compensation).
after that it's just the same stop and fixer everyone uses. I haven't printed in a long time since I don't have an area suitable for it but my negatives are quite thick and when I print them down for the highlights I do definitely lose some shadow detail. Again that doesn't bother me in the slightest; I'd rather pretend to be Ralph Gibson than apply my zone knowledge (which isn't immense but definitely better than some might guess given my pictures).
rattymouse wrote:
Just beautiful cat!!
thanks. surprisingly, they have rather unique personalities as far as cats go. you know what, here is the OTHER cat in 4x5 for Dan. having two of these monsters can be a handful, especially with having 2 dogs too. they are so long that if they stand on their back feet they can reach up to the bottom of my rib cage and I'm closer to 5'9" than 5'8".
Ratty, I need you to either run my scans or fix the color in PP
I love shooting Ektar, but half the time I'm fighting color casts and it doesn't help that I'm a bit color blind!!
dswiger wrote:
Ratty, I need you to either run my scans or fix the color in PP
I love shooting Ektar, but half the time I'm fighting color casts and it doesn't help that I'm a bit color blind!!
BTW nice images
Dan
I wish I did my own scans, but I dont. Their from the lab!
Photoshop's auto color actually does a really good job with color correction, IMO
one from my newest lens, the 50 Makro-Planar. on the same roll of acros as my previous pics. Not many people shoot it on film as far as I can tell, which I think is a real shame =/ I realize it's hard to get the detail this thing puts down off the film (I know my little Minolta can't) but the contrast and transition to OoF of this lens are phenomenal so I think it's a perfectly good lens to shoot b&w with.
redisburning wrote:
Photoshop's auto color actually does a really good job with color correction, IMO
one from my newest lens, the 50 Makro-Planar. on the same roll of acros as my previous pics. Not many people shoot it on film as far as I can tell, which I think is a real shame =/ I realize it's hard to get the detail this thing puts down off the film (I know my little Minolta can't) but the contrast and transition to OoF of this lens are phenomenal so I think it's a perfectly good lens to shoot b&w with.
Micro-contrast and general lens rendering works on any medium. Some of today lens are very interesting on film. If I remember correctly one guy here shoots (or used to shoot) with 24-70/2.8 ZA on film. Quite interesting rendering.. very contrasty.
redisburning wrote:
Photoshop's auto color actually does a really good job with color correction, IMO
one from my newest lens, the 50 Makro-Planar. on the same roll of acros as my previous pics. Not many people shoot it on film as far as I can tell, which I think is a real shame =/ I realize it's hard to get the detail this thing puts down off the film (I know my little Minolta can't) but the contrast and transition to OoF of this lens are phenomenal so I think it's a perfectly good lens to shoot b&w with.
acros in rodinal is my safety blanket. I feel it is the easiest combo for me to draw good tonality out of, and I think that that is critical to pictures like this. I have tried other films but only Acros handles shadows the way I really like.
I suppose I have some backlog wrt to this thread so I will just post some other combos for comparison to demonstrate my point:
Tri-X with Xtol - it's ok I guess not great but not awful IMO Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
Tri-X with Rodinal - I struggle with this combo. I CANNOT shoot shaded areas with directly lit areas behind it unless the background is way OoF like this or I just want to claw my eyes out Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
I semi-recently re-post-processed my TMax 100 in Rodinal shots. I actually have a few rolls to shoot and I will be bringing my speed down significantly from box which is where I shot it last time. Rather than 100, I'm going to do 64 as per the Agfa times. I don't know how that's going to turn out; my negatives last time were neither thin nor thick per se. I just didn't have good results when I tried to do anything with it. I actually had meant to order delta 100 but I messed up lol. Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr
I should mention that I had originally intended to develop my new TMax in Xtol 1:1 but I went ahead and did some looking around to see other people's strategies and was absolutely blown away when I saw some work by a guy on Pnet named Beau Brashares using TMax 100 in Rodinal 1:50.
I figure it's worth learning how to use other films. It would be a lot easier if I shot long grayscale images but oh well, nothing worth doing is done easily.
redisburning wrote:
I semi-recently re-post-processed my TMax 100 in Rodinal shots. I actually have a few rolls to shoot and I will be bringing my speed down significantly from box which is where I shot it last time. Rather than 100, I'm going to do 64 as per the Agfa times. I don't know how that's going to turn out; my negatives last time were neither thin nor thick per se. I just didn't have good results when I tried to do anything with it. I actually had meant to order delta 100 but I messed up lol.
