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Camera: Nikon f5
Lens: Tokina 20-35mm f3.5-4.5
Film: Kodak Gold 200.
Yeap, I've bought another film camera. Somebody stop me!:)
Nikon F5
Nikon ED
AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm f3.5-4.5G
Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100
Kodak HC-110
DsLr DiGiTiZeD
PS 2022
Nikon F5
Nikon ED
AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm f3.5-4.5G
Eastman Hi Contrast 2369
Kodak HC-110
DsLr DiGiTiZeD
PS 2022
Nikon F5
Nikon ED
AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm f3.5-4.5G
Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100
Kodak HC-110
DsLr DiGiTiZeD
PS 2022
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP IR 200, 720nm filter
This might be my favorite angle of the farmstead in the last couple of photos that I have posted from the 24 exposure roll of FPP infrared 200 - which is, according to the internet, re-packaged Rollei infrared 400. I shot it at 200 ISO and compensated the 5 stops for the 720nm filter with the shutter speed. Most of these IR shots were taken around 1/30 at f8. Clouds cooperated while I was at this house. The first location on this day was a cool house as well, but the sky was absolutely flat and cloudless.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 23mm f2.8, FPP Low ISO Color 35mm.
Photo from a few weeks back when I was running my first roll of this unusual film stock through my camera. Stopped at a specialist old car dealer to take a look at some of the rusting hulks. I thought this one was particularly nice.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, orange filter, FPP Derevpan 100.
Following a disused prairie 'road' toward a coulee and saw this rather fetching vista with nice clouds overhead. I suspected an old bridge in the coulee was out, and after taking this pic, I discovered that was the case. Developed with Tmax developer.
This film is quite interesting. I did not do much work to the sky - with the orange filter, this film renders skies really very dark, but these negs were all a bit overdeveloped as it was my first experiment with this film. The grain is pronounced, but not overly so, contrast is pretty high as well.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP IR 200 (Rollei IR 400), 720nm filter.
I like this angle of this ancient broken down tree that has been silently witnessing the passage of time at this old dustbowl house. It's seen a lot.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP Infrared, 720nm filter.
A second version of the 'Broken Back', but a slightly different angle and in infrared. I miss the Kodak infrared B&W film less and less the more I shoot this FPP (Rollei) film. Developed in Tmax developer.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Tmax 100, orange filter.
I've been looking for this house for awhile. I knew it was there from my Google Earth recon, but figuring out how to get to it was challenging.
I have been looking for an abandoned house on the shore of Lake Darling, a large man-made lake in north-central ND for a few years. I knew one had to be here because a populated valley was flooded to create this flood control lake. This one was inside of the land that was ceased back in the 30's, but not close enough to the lake to have been razed. It's so far off the beaten track that it is completely unvandalized - this house has been abandoned since the mid-late 1930's, and look at it. It is on a wind-swept bluff overlooking the lake. It is a serene, peaceful place, with only the wind making any noise. I plan to make several more trips to this spot now that I know where it is.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP Infrared 200, 720nm filter. Developed in Kodak Tmax developer for 18 mins at 70 degrees.
This is a neat little farmstead. A couple of collapsed roofs on two outbuildings, and this one only just barely hanging on. Need to get back here with color - myriad colored bee boxes just behind this small shack just in front of a pond.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, orange filter, FPP (Svema) Blue Sensitive 35mm.
Just to give everyone a contrast here between the last shot of this place on Kodak Tmax 100 and the Svema Blue Sensitive (low ISO of 6) - here is a shot from a slightly different angle illustrating the extremely high contrast and fine grain this film has.
Interesting film for sure.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP Derevpan 100, orange filter.
This is a second version of the 'Road' Closed, but a bit tighter in. FPP Derevpan 100 processed in Kodak Tmax developer. I will be starting another roll of this film soon - I want to know if the skies are always this dark. No processing of the sky was done in any of the Derevpan images in my photostream - they were this dark direct from the negs.
Nikon F5, 24mm f2.8, orange filter, Kodak Tmax 100.
Abandoned gas station just south of the Lake Sakakawea causeway on the 83 about 40 miles south of Minot ND. The smoke from the Canadian wildfires is doing the typical summer thing here in ND - making the skies dull and the air smell like a smoker. Still, I think this image has a compelling composition.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Tmax 100, orange filter.
Just an old one room un-elelctrified very old cabin. Even though it does not look like this cabin was ever electrified, it did have a very old washing machine from the 40's inside.
I really like the framing of this composition. The sky was very flat that day, so I closed in on the most interesting part of the cabin and a lonely tree. I think it works well.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, orange filter, Kodak Tmax 100, DF96.
This is a shot from this past April that I just got around to de-dusting. Cinestill DF-96 has been getting a lot of flack from darkroom snobs online of late, and I don't think it is at all warranted. Absolutely, Kodak or Legacy Pro T-Max developer will give much finer grain and more resolution. That said - DF-96 negs give much more forward grain (and possibly more pleasing, if you like grain). As I do enjoy me some grain - this is a developer that I will continue to use. Does it leave some of the purple dye on the negatives - yep. Are the negatives thinner than tmax processed ones - yep. Can you probably mitigate both somewhat with longer times - probably. However, in my experience using fresh DF96 - the negs always come out thinner than with a Kodak dev+fix. Do have to process more in Lightroom to get the final image, but the grain that results is pretty amazing.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP IR 200 (Rollei IR 400), 720nm filter.
This cluster of trees is mostly dead due to a rising water table. The one tree on the right has one small tuft of leaves that look a little bit like the cloud behind, but those are live leaves. Won't be too much longer though.
Nikon F5
Nikon ED
AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm f3.5-4.5G
Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100
Kodak HC-110
DsLr DiGiTiZeD
PS 2022
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP Infrared - no filter.
This is a very neat house, located in a partially-hidden grove of at least 150 year-old cottonwoods. I was here the morning after Halloween, and the calendar hadn't yet caught up with the conditions - it was dark, overcast, and windy. It was spooky.
This place is about a half mile from the road, and I forgot the 720nm filter in the truck, so this was shot without a filter on infrared film. I have a couple additional photos from this day, but I couldn't shake an eerie feeling. I took a short video of this house as well. You can see that here if you want -> youtu.be/z-Hkf1YAn00?si=upOXcZsxEiFRLK2A
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Tmax 100, orange filter.
Cool old sign in the strange little hamlet of Ruthville, ND. This town has an, erm, reputation. Just south of Minot AFB, this once amazing sign now lacks all of the original neon tubes and many of the light bulbs and the text can only just barely be made out. It looks like the motel in the background may still be open. I definitely felt like I was being watched when I was taking this.
Nikon F5
Nikon ED
AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm f3.5-4.5G
Eastman Hi Contrast 2369
Kodak HC-110
DsLr DiGiTiZeD
PS 2022
Nikon F5, Nikkor 23mm f2.8, FPP Low ISO Color Negative film.
Another shot from the first roll of this film through the F5. This one must have been a bit underexposed because, as you can see, the colors are a bit strange - but that seems to be one of the things this film is about.
It for sure has a look.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, orange filter, FPP Derev Pan 100.
Nice little composition with the plow lines and this prairie island with a dramatic sky in the background. Derev Pan seems to lend itself to very dark, dramatic infrared-like skies with an orange filter.
I slightly overdeveloped these negatives trying to find the optimal time in Kodak Tmax developer at 8 minutes in stock 4:1 - I think 6 minutes is the magic number in this developer. Neat film stock - will definitely grab more rolls of this one from FPP for sure.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, orange filter, Svema (FPP) Blue Sensitive, Kodak Tmax developer.
Another shot of this really very photogenic location. I disliked this shot at first - it's got a lot wrong with it technically. The sky is blown out, it has vignetting at the edges.
But, as I was thinking about the composition overall, and the imperfections - I realized that I couldn't stop looking at this image. I love the straight on portrait mode with these old houses. It formalizes their witness to time and the elements. It shows off their scars, and it gives them a certain proudness. This house has seen things, and you can't help but to see that immediately in this image. It reminds me of Harry Truman in a way. Not the president. The old codgeter that wouldn't leave his house on the flanks of Mt. St. Helens. He's under a lot of that mountain now, but he was proud and unwilling to give up his lived experiences in that place. This house seems to be stating something similar. 'I took care of mine. I did that right here. I am proud I did my job, and content in my fate.'
That is what this image says to me.
Nikon F5, 24mm f2.8, orange filter, Kodak Tmax 100.
This is my friend Al. He came from a really, really bad situation and he's kind of a clutz. He got his face tangled in a fence when he was just a pup and has a massive scar down his face where the skin peeled off of his nose and rumpled up. He's been with me now for 6 or 7 years, and he's had his ups and downs, but he's my friend. He's a cremello - two copies of the creme gene - one copy makes a brown horse into a palomino, two copies washed all brown pigment out, including the eyes. Al has sky blue eyes. He is a lovely, lovely animal to be around. I love him.
Just thought I would share.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Rollei infrared, 720nm filter.
Unusual stucco house on the prairie near Lake Darling, north-central ND. I have struggled with how to best frame this house, and it always looks a little odd to me because of how flat the side walls appear. This one has a flat sky, but I think it works okay because the flat walls are mirrored by the flat sky - light walls, dark IR sky.
If you look closely though, you can see a row of coat hooks just inside of the partially collapsed porch roof. Those coat hooks used to have jackets on them. Or overalls. Or tiny jackets. These are the details that tug at my empathy.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Tmax 100.
This is one of only a handful of this type of overflow in the US. Often called 'glory hole', I was hopeful that all of the rain that had fallen in the area would mean that water was falling into this overflow, but it was not. I will have more photos of this place as I develop the rolls. This is a panning photomosaic of two separate 35mm frames.
Developed in TMax developer for 5 minutes at 65F.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Tmax 100, ornage filter.
Cool old abandoned (or nearly abandoned?) building on the prairie of ND in the NW corner of the state. Neat little town where the large grain elevator near the tracks is probably the thing keeping the town as intact as it is.
Love these old places.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Tmax, orange filter.
This is the old Walloomsac Inn, a very sadly derelict structure in old Bennington Vermont. It was built around 1764 - well, probably not this part, but the older rectangular front part. The title of this photo is a play on the New England placard 'George Washington slept here,' sometimes seen on old houses - the veracity of which is often unproven. However, in 1791, it is well-documented that Jefferson and James Madison actually did stay here when the two were visiting the new state of Vermont.
It was sad to see this place in the current state that it sits. It's privately owned and posted private property no trespassing, so I only took a few pictures from the road. I like how this one turned out under the canopy of a tree across the street.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP x-ray film, Df96 for 4 minutes.
This film is finer grained than I thought it would be, but I suppose resolution is kinda important for x-rays. It is contrasty, and renders things in an interesting way. Only sensitive to blues and greens, and the van in this image was a sort of rust red - which it very definitely darkened. Will certainly give this another try. Developed in Df96 for 4 minutes at 74 degrees.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP Infrared 200, 720nm filter.
Another tripod-mounted shot of this cool abandoned farmstead. Love what the IR film did to the tree's foliage and wheat stubble in this photo.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP Low ISO Color Negative (Eastman 2254).
Interesting color negative film. I have had two rolls of this stuff for some time and decided last weekend to give it a try. It is very slow - so a tripod is a must - they recommend an ISO of 1.6. My F5 only goes down to ISO 6, so I just shot at ISO 6 with two stops of exposure compensation. Seems to have worked okay.
This film has a definite color cast. It seems to lean very much toward the blue and magenta, so it does require quite a bit of fidgeting with the colors in post to get it tamed down. The film base is a pale pink purple, which I think is one of the reasons for the difficulty. I am reasonably happy with the colors of this one - and although they are not accurate, this has the feeling of the colors I remember from the day. Just read the fine print on the negative border - this one is Eastman 2254.
This was a one-room cabin next to the house that was built after this one was abandoned. Often on the prairie, this is the case - the original family outgrows the old place and builds a new one right next to the old one, which then just gradually decays away.
This one had three old toilets inside, strewn about. Just outside of the door was the old Steelcase-style 'tanker' desk chair. Will definitely be going back to this one.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, FPP Infrared 200 (Rollei IR 400), 720nm filter.
One more of the piano house. I took this photo on the same day I did the sunrise photos and from approximately the same spot. I love how the sky rendered on this image. If you compare this image with either of the color photos, you nearly can't see any cloud cover in those photos, but in IR, even the whispy, upper-level clouds pop. This may be my favorite shot of this location (so far).
This emulsion is super delicate though. I very gently squeegee my negs when I pull them out of the tank because I hate water spots. On this entire roll, there was a massive drag mark where the wet squeegee pulled significant emulsion right off of the base. It was a linear structure, but was fairly wide. Luckily it was located in the sky region and it was not hard to remove in Photoshot - took a lot of time though.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Tmax 100, Df96 - 12mins at 75F.
Many lakes in N Central ND have substantially risen over the past several years - likely due to a connection in these glacial features in the unsorted till beneath the prairie soils. Some of the roadways have needed to be adjusted accordingly.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, orange filter, Kodak Tmax 100.
Dams and reservoirs fascinate me - huge engineering and mysterious pipes and plumbing. They evoke a visceral, fearful, respectful response - at least from me. This one is massive - each intake pipe is 12 feet in diameter somewhere below the surface of the lake.