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Original exposure and development:
Asham Meads BBOWT, Otmoor, Oxfordshire
11th May 2019 3:30pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
¼" f/32
Rear and front tilts forward, down angle on Arca Cube head
No filters
Pyrocat HD 2:2:100 in BTZS tube
N, 10'30" (5min prewash in distilled water; 1min acetic acid stop bath; 10min fix in TF4; 1min sodium sulfite hypoclear; 30min wash)
Print:
7th May 2022 / 21.5ºC / 52% RH
10x8 contact print from Ilford FP4+ negative on 14x11 Bergger Cot320
3ml Fotospeed argyrotype sensitiver, 1 drop of tween20 solution (mix of 1 drop and 5 drops distilled water)
Paper dried 3hrs15mins, no prehumidification
8’30’ daylight exposure, full sun, 4pm
5mins wash in 1.5l distilled water with squeeze of lemon juice
5mins wash in 1.5l tap water
3mins fix in hypo
1hr final soak
Dried flat for 48hrs
Digitized with Nikon D800E/85PC-E, stitch of two shifted frames.
Juliet's Rhododendron
Graflex Super Graphic 4x5
Graflex Optar 135mm f/4.7
Ilford HP5 Plus
Ichor film developer 1:100 21C 8:30 Ilford agitation
Not the sharpest - there was some wind. I stopped down to f/22 for dof which left me at 1/25 second exposure and some motion blur, but not too bad.
LZ-BTZ (MSN 88A-781) was manufactured in 1988 and delivered to the Bulgarian Government (Aviootryad 28) initially in Balkan Airlines color scheme.
During a major overhaul in late 1999 it received some avionics’ upgrades as well as this livery and the “Republic of Bulgaria” titles.
Besides missions for the government, the aircraft used to operate ad-hoc flights for Balkan and later for Bulgaria Air during times of capacity shortages.
Last flight for the government was conducted in February 2010 and after 6.134 flight hours the aircraft was stored in Sofia.
The aircraft was then sold to a local businessman for $395.000, underwent technical checks and some maintenance in June 2003 before it was ferried to Samara for overhaul in July 2013. In May 2015 whilst at the maintenance plant it was sold again to a Russian owner.
Great Coxwell Barn, Oxfordshire
13th April 2019, 1:20pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150mm f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
29" f/32
camera bed tilted up and rear and front tilt forward applied for front rise effect.
Lower part of main left door frame metered at -3, N-2 development indicated.
Home-developed with Pyrocat HD 2:2:100/BTZS tubes, 8mins 30secs.
Scanned with Epson V850/Silverfast AiStudio8 (16bit, 1200ppi, film delicately taped to diy silicone mat), cropped in from right and toned gently in Photoshop.
N-2 development was my thinking for non-alternative process printing. For alt-pro (e.g. Pt/Pd) N-1 may have sufficed. Also, 8'30" was probably too long even for N-1 since the neg was about 2 stops too bright; the file had to be darkened in photoshop a fair bit. Dialling in the expansion/contraction times will be a work of practice and experimentation. N-1 would have been possibly more appropriate, and a dev time of something in the region of 8 minutes or slightly less perhaps better. But still a great result as a scanned image worked on in PS.
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Great Coxwell Barn, Oxfordshire
29th July 2019
6:47pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
25mm front rise
15 minutes f/45
N-development, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 9’27”, 22ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash
I shot doubles for all images from this outing, since I plan to start experimenting with alternative processes in a few weeks. Wish me luck with that!!
At Leeds Bus Station
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A view into the distance from the Hidden Lake Trail in Glacier National Park. A hazy day created the layering effect.
23rd December 2019 12:45pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
1” f/45
Front rise
N+1 development for Argyrotype, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 20’48”, 21ºC (heavily overdeveloped for argytoype but scanned ok: not quite sure what I was thinking with this one. Would probably have been better with reading the trunk on the left as a midtone and using a contracted development. The heavily extended development as it is pulled up the midtones and shadows as well as the highlights and made an argyrotype print impossible.)
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash
Same image as previous but a bit more contrast.
5th May 2019 6:30am
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
2" f/45
Rear and front tilts forward, down angle on Arca Cube head
No filters
Developed with Pyrocat HD 2:2:100 in BTZS tube
N-1, 8'05" (5min prewash in distilled water; 1min acetic acid stop bath; 10min fix in TF4; 1min sodium sulfite hypoclear; 30min wash)
See here for my latest thoughts on 8x10: dwfnaturephoto.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/experience-effort...
Whichford Wood, Warwickshire Cotswolds
5th July 2019
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
3” f/32
Small amount of front tilt
N development, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 9’27”, 22ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash
Kinlochleven, Scotland
7th August 2019, 4pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-M 450 f/9
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
¼” f/45
0.6 Hard GND
Spot-metered at -2 off tree trunks.
N-development, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 10’30”, 21ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash
For the first time I shot doubles of the latest images, processing the second of the two sheets for a longer time. I'm getting the ducks in the row to start alternative process printing shortly - both Cyanotypes and Argyrotypes. Should be fun!
I used just the modeling lights on this, as this lens is a barrel lens and can't easily work with flash. Exposure was 2 1/2secs at f/4
printed on Foma WT Fiber Paper, developed in Moersch SE2
(this is a negative scan)
The large coat may have proved overkill in the end...
More usually the home of the branded Sapphire Streetlites, the 133 has been played host to more classic design E200s of late.
Arriva Colchester ADL Enviro200 GN58BTZ (4016) is seen on its travels along Parsonage Road heading into Takeley with a Route 133 service for Braintree 29/06/23