huddy wrote: redisburning wrote:
Acros 100 in Rodinal 1:50, from the same roll
I\'ve seen these here and at RFF, and I really like the set. Do you mind sharing your developing routine for Acros as I have been looking to evaluate it at as my medium speed B&W film and wanted to get a few developing notes from someone who knew what they were doing.
you give me far too much credit. it would be an overstatement to say that I know what I am doing.
however, if you like what I do and wish to emulate it, that I can help you with.
I shoot Acros at 100. Development is 13 minutes in Rodinal 1:50 at 68F, invert continuously for 30 seconds then do 5 seconds of \"wine swishing\" every minute (second at 1:30, last at 12:30). water stop, fix then wash.
most of what you see in my images is aggressive post processing. I used to just do levels to set a white and black point and while I perceived that as being \"nice\" it did not look to me much like a print, of which I have made a few. so what I did was take a bunch of photos by my personal favorite Jean-Loup Sieff and spend time analyzing their histograms and saw that they were either flat or looked like the bottom of a flat bowl, and mine looked like a little hill. what you see now is aggressive curves -> levels to push the histogram into that shape and then set the white and black points.
Apr 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM
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