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Testing out a new light meter. Got to the beach too late and could only shoot this lavender. Seems right.
I was developing yesterdays photo and todays at the same time and accidently used the same piece of printing paper for both and got this.
Inicialmente (desde 1840), era un barrio bajo conocido como Hell's Hundred Acres ('Los cien acres del infierno') del Cast-Iron District ('Distrito del hierro fundido'). Se hizo famoso como un vecindario de artistas durante los años 1960 y 1970, cuando los espacios eran baratos debido a que las antiguas fábricas eran convertidas en lofts y estudios. Su nombre proviene del acrónimo South of Houston y es que precisamente este moderno barrio empieza justo por debajo de la calle Houston
While trying to shoot and develop the antique Agfa plates, I got to worrying that my somewhat old batch of developer (Xtol) had gone off. Well, it had. So I used some of my slightly less-old batch of D-23. Which worked. To make sure, I grabbed one of my plates out of the [yecch] pile and popped it in the camera and just shot what was in front of it, in this case a bike I picked from the trash last week and am fixing up because I think it will make a good commuter bike for a friend. Total mess in and around it, and a somewhat cruddy plate, but it was sufficient to tell me that the developer worked, enabling me to go out once more to try the Agfa plates. Which turned out to be mostly insensitive by this point, but that's the way it goes sometimes.
This is the one result I got from the box of Agfa isochromatic plates from the early 1950s (probably?). It's the result of a two minute exposure in late-afternoon open shade. Could play around with stand development or benzotriazole, but don't think it's much worth it. Fun to try anyway. I'll reuse the glass for my own plates.