Pentre Ifan-Cairns

Pentre Ifan looking through to the Cairns.

Pentre Ifan is a Neolithic burial chamber (approx 5k years old). It has a 5m (16' 6")‘capstone’ appearing to be precariously balanced on three ‘uprights’.

 

Having produced a number of images that aimed to bring out the atmosphere of this place, and one to show the straight scanned negative (as a reference for anyone wanting to try this method) this is a straight process using LrC for brightness, contrast, local shading (sky - it was plain white) and the removal of flaws in the negative (white dots, a watermark from drying). It's intended as an illustration of Pentre Ifan (as oppossed to fine art).

 

 

For those who are interested:

Fomapan 100 @box

Canon EOS 55e

EF 24-70mm f4 L

Perceptol 1+1 (100ml + 100ml) & RO9 2+62 (1ml+123ml) @ 20Deg C *

10min 30 Sec agitate every min

Stop 1 min

Adofix Rapid II 1+7 8mins @ 20 Deg C

Wash 10 mins

Final rinse with wetting agent

Scanned PlusTec 8200i SE SilverFast 9

 

* Dilution for RO9 was calculated to match times for Perceptol @ 1+3

Film36_Foma100_7

Done