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Photographer Photographed #1
1982 Tri-X @ ASA 400 in HC-110A for 9 minutes. Original negative shot in a Nikon F2 with, I believe, a 50mm 1.4. Developed negative photographed with a 55mm MicroNikkor on a bellows for digital conversion. Used LiveView for a grain focuser, and there was an abundance of it on which to focus. This is nearly the full 24mm width of the negative, squared up because it's a square composition.
Grain is exaggerated and tonal scale shot because of a few factors in my estimation, though I invite the more knowledgeable to weigh in. Not about the work in post, but about developing the old stock... This image was part of my first 2013 go at film manufactured around the time the Hunts tried to corner the silver market. The emulsion is three stops "old" and I should have exposed at 50-100 to keep developing times down, but have learned that since I exposed this frame's roll two years ago. The latent image had two more years to gracefully mature between exposure and development. I also did some non-purist stuff to it in Lightroom, but I use the tools I have! I'll wet print it next time I set up, just to see what it looks like in its pure, unadulterated form.
Kind of cool, though, because this is our daughter, Nikkormat around her neck, photographed on a frame out of a sentimental three hundred feet of my former staple Tri-X that my late mom bought and froze for me after I left for the US Navy in '78. Seems like it had skyrocketed to ~$25-30 a hundred or thereabouts.
It likely spent some time baking in an attic or storage unit over the past fifteen years, though. My wonderful sister was kind enough to reunite me with the rolls recently and I'm occasionally throwing different chemistry at test strips to try and tame the blackish base fog that Rodinal gave a roll. Hey - I'm back into the darkroom after 35 years away and was a D-76/Accufine/Diafine guy back them, shooting night-time football games for our school newspaper and the occasional NASCAR race when I could get trackside in Charlotte.
My film was fresh in the mid-70's, too. I never experimented with the expired mystery stuff I marveled over in Freestyle's ads for five to ten bucks a hundred, so never learned about Potassium Bromide, HC-110, Rodinal or DIY chemistry. I had Yellow Bags - who needed to measure chemicals?
I found that nine minutes in HC-110A did a respectable job on this film/age/exposure combination so I developed this roll I'd been hanging onto since our walk around Annapolis two years prior. The base fog didn't appear; base looks like Tri-X base always looked. Grain looks more like what I remember from Tri-X pushed to 1600 for those night games.
Thanks for taking time to read this far down in a photo comment!
Alan
Photographer Photographed #1
1982 Tri-X @ ASA 400 in HC-110A for 9 minutes. Original negative shot in a Nikon F2 with, I believe, a 50mm 1.4. Developed negative photographed with a 55mm MicroNikkor on a bellows for digital conversion. Used LiveView for a grain focuser, and there was an abundance of it on which to focus. This is nearly the full 24mm width of the negative, squared up because it's a square composition.
Grain is exaggerated and tonal scale shot because of a few factors in my estimation, though I invite the more knowledgeable to weigh in. Not about the work in post, but about developing the old stock... This image was part of my first 2013 go at film manufactured around the time the Hunts tried to corner the silver market. The emulsion is three stops "old" and I should have exposed at 50-100 to keep developing times down, but have learned that since I exposed this frame's roll two years ago. The latent image had two more years to gracefully mature between exposure and development. I also did some non-purist stuff to it in Lightroom, but I use the tools I have! I'll wet print it next time I set up, just to see what it looks like in its pure, unadulterated form.
Kind of cool, though, because this is our daughter, Nikkormat around her neck, photographed on a frame out of a sentimental three hundred feet of my former staple Tri-X that my late mom bought and froze for me after I left for the US Navy in '78. Seems like it had skyrocketed to ~$25-30 a hundred or thereabouts.
It likely spent some time baking in an attic or storage unit over the past fifteen years, though. My wonderful sister was kind enough to reunite me with the rolls recently and I'm occasionally throwing different chemistry at test strips to try and tame the blackish base fog that Rodinal gave a roll. Hey - I'm back into the darkroom after 35 years away and was a D-76/Accufine/Diafine guy back them, shooting night-time football games for our school newspaper and the occasional NASCAR race when I could get trackside in Charlotte.
My film was fresh in the mid-70's, too. I never experimented with the expired mystery stuff I marveled over in Freestyle's ads for five to ten bucks a hundred, so never learned about Potassium Bromide, HC-110, Rodinal or DIY chemistry. I had Yellow Bags - who needed to measure chemicals?
I found that nine minutes in HC-110A did a respectable job on this film/age/exposure combination so I developed this roll I'd been hanging onto since our walk around Annapolis two years prior. The base fog didn't appear; base looks like Tri-X base always looked. Grain looks more like what I remember from Tri-X pushed to 1600 for those night games.
Thanks for taking time to read this far down in a photo comment!
Alan