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Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
iPhone snapshot of an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
On the way back home I stopped at Rocky Mountain National Park. It was still winter up there last May. I got a few shots before the snowstorm began in earnest and chased me out of the high country. I don't post too many heavily manipulated images, but I liked this monochrome in selenium tone... there wasn't much drama in the color version. Somewhere in my archives I have a slide of Longs Peak in color that looks quite a bit like this...
Longs Peak rises to 14,259 feet (4,346 m) above sea level, the only fourteener in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Negative shot by Retina IIIS with 35mm Curtagon
Print 30x40 cm, selenium and sepia toned
Personal comment: sharpness is overrated, sometimes
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
HP5+ Rodinol
This time on Ilford MGFB Gloss Grade 3
in Moersch Eco 4812 Selenium tonÄ™.
Punchier than the Foma version.
Liking Moersch Eco 4812. I think its going to be my go to for normal prints.
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Hasselblad 500 C/M with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD.
Printed on Forte Polywarmtone PW17
Two trays Lith:
LD20/D
Catechol/G
Kodak Selenium
The same procedure as the previous one with additional Iron toning.
MT3 Vario (bleach 1+75 2 mins, toner setting "B") followed by MT1 Selenium 1+100 2 mins and MT7 Iron Blue 40+40+80+40+2000ml 1 min
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Lotus Flower
(Homage to St. Ansel)
Yeah, I know this is just another flower shot. And you're right, it is. Black and White, Heavy Contrast, purple Selenium stained, reminiscent of Ansel Adams, in all but the background bokeh.
On the other hand, Lotus blossoms are very much at the center of the Buddhist Om Mani Padme prayer ("hail to the jewel in the Lotus") and of the Zen koan "No bud, No Lotus". It also symbolizes a hundred other interesting existential questions about the nature and need of absolutes, the existence of beauty, order and randomness, good and evil, and so much else that gives gives thought and wonder to life.
iPhone snapshot of an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Hasselblad 2000 FCW w Carl Zeiss F 80mm f2.8
Kodak TriX in Rodinal 1+50
Kentmere Fineprint VC in Moersch Sepia 1+14 > Moersch Selenium MT4
LPL 7452 enlarger w VCCE head
Scanned on Microtek i800
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
In this series the emphasis will be more on architectural shots and combining this with long exposures.
Some may question if this is architecture, I think it is, anyway it is man built.
This one is dedicated to one of my Flickr friends Joshua Wyborn. Although only being 17 he's already shown a high level of depth and maturity in his work that other more experienced B&W photographers can only dream of. His understanding of light, contrasts, tonality, mood and all of the finer skills in B&W photography is amazing for someone his age. My word, the world will hear more of him in the years to come. So check out his work.
Technical info:
10 stops ND filter
Polarization Filter - 2 stops
f/25
ISO100
121s (2min) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 2.0
PS CS3 - Silver Efex Pro - Orange Filter - Selenium toning
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Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
For this version, I have gone with a split-tone (selenium) rendition, plus I have added some shadow effects, in order to ramp up the drama.
iPhone snapshot of an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Melon yard potting shed, Heligan Gardens, Cornwall. Shen Hao 4x10, 121mm Schneider Super Angulon. 2:40 @ f/32 Ilford FP4+ in Pyrocat HD. Sepia and Selenium split toned contact print on G3 Lodima in Ansco 130.
Again a lith print was used as a template for a Kallitype in order to achieve a grainy result.
Bergger Cot-320 MT14 Selenium 1+100 2,5 minutes
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Hasselblad 501 C/M with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD
Printed on Gevaert Orthobrom
Two trays lith development
Selenium toned
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Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
La Voigtländer Vitessa deu ser una de les cà meres de 35mm més inusuals de la seva època, i compta amb més d'una caracteristica força inusual.
Es tracta d'una cà mera telemetrica de 35mm plegable i amb fotometre, fabricada el 1956. Fins aquà res d'especial. El fotometre es de seleni d'un tipus una mica inusual però res més. Però la manera com es plega aixà com avança la pel·licula son especials. L'objectiu es desplega i replega rera unes "portes de graner" dobles, força inusuals. Amb tot, hi ha alguna altra cà mera amb "portes de graner", com la Chinon Bellami.
El que sà sembla realment unic és l'avençador de pel·licula/carregador del obturador. Es tracta d'un gran "embol" a la part superior que funciona apretant-lo fins a baix de tot després de cà da fotografia. També es plega manualment un cop s'ha tancat l'objectiu rera les "barn doors".
Per tot plegat la Vitessa sembla una curiositat amb més interès com a col·leccionisme que per a fer-la servir com a cà mera, però he vist que és obviament prou valida (és una Voigtlander, després de tot). Obviament, com indica el seu nom, es força rà pida de fer anar, amb aquest llarg "carregador".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApMpt9hU7c
voigtlander.pagesperso-orange.fr/cameras.htm
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The Voigtländer Vitessa must be one of the most unusual 35mm cameras of its time, and it has more than one rather unusual feature.
To see it in folded position: flic.kr/p/2oQtyLJ
It is a 35mm folding rangefinder camera with photometer made in 1956. So far nothing special. The light meter is of selenium and of a somewhat unusual type but nothing else. But the way the camera unfolds and advances film are special. The lens unfolds and folds behind some rather unusual double "barn doors". There are only a few of other cameras with "barn doors", such as the Chinon Bellami.
What does seem really unique is the film advancer/shutter loader. It's a big "rod" at the top that works by squeezing it all the way down after each shot. It also can be folded manually once the objective has been closed behind the "barn doors".
All in all the Vitessa seems like a curiosity with more interest as a collectible than for use as a camera, but I've seen that it's obviously valid enough (it's a Voigtlander, after all). Obviously, as the name suggests, it is quite quick to operate, with this long "loader" rod.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
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Agfa Isola pinhole with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD.
Printed on Adox Variotone
Developed in Moersch Blue+FB
MT3 / Selenium
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Hasselblad 501 C/M with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD
Printed on Gevaert Orthobrom K35Z (chamois)
Two trays lith development
Selenium toned
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Ireland
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Hasselblad 501 C/M with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD
Printed on Foma 133
Developed in Catechol / Sepia
Selenium / MT3
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My darkroom is alive...
Darkroom print on Foma FB 111, selenium toned 1:9 followed by a light sepia (fotospeed). Negative is 6x9 by Royer folder with Angenieux lens. Film: Fomapan 400, developed in Adox Silvermax developer (2nd use) 1:49 for 25 minutes.
Bleach 1:50, toning somewhat complicated because of a lack of re-development. Although I like the tone, I'll try another sepia toner next time (maybe Foma).
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Using the selenium meter integrated in the camera.
As I already observed concerning the Contaflex III, which is essentially identical but does not contain a meter: I don't find the lens overwhelmingly sharp but the colour rendering is rather pleasing.
I have created a new Flickr group dedicated exclusively to the Zeiss Ikon Contaflex line ---> click here
Zeiss Ikon Contaflex IV with Tessar 50mm f/2.8
Kodak Portra 800 colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Rolleiflex 3.5E
Planar 75mm 3.5
Rolleinar 2
Ilford HP 5
Developed in Kodak HC-110 (B)
Scan from print
Paper: Fomatone MG 131
Lith developer: Rollei Super Lith
Toned in selenium
All in camera overlays
Two days solargraphy
Pinhole box + 5"x7" RC paper + Kodak Xtol (1+3, 18°C ) + Selenium bath
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
This is my attempt at adding a hue that best matches the results I got when I applied selenium toner to black and white prints.
I used a B+W 091 Dark Red (Wratten#29) filter while taking this image.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Leica M6, 50mm, Kodak 400TX, D76, 400 Iso, 20°C.
Printed: ILFORD MG ART 300 24x30,5cm - Selenium toning
Title quoted from Depeche Mode – who else!
I need to photograph more churches. When used correctly, they can hand such an amazing, ghostly, haunting, spiritual atmosphere to photos.
That's especially true for this church: ancient architecture with a few crosses outside. The lighting was perfect that day, very strong and I visited at the right time of day.
I especially like the way the shadows fall on the church's wall. I went for something that looks like what Depeche Mode sounds like (if that makes any sense) and think I did really well.
Coincidentally, it was election day here in Germany. I had just voted, it was a beautiful, warm day, so I decided it was the best time to test out my new wide angle lens that I had recently gotten to replace my (literally falling apart) Sigma 24mm. Very nice and handy little lens!
As a side note: I've finally taken more care in proper easel alignment before starting the darkroom session. Good thing I finally did, it's always a pain to notice off-sized borders/tilted images after the fact. Also, I stole the idea of printing part of the film border in order to create a thin black inner frame from Ludwig Römer, love it! ;)
Fomaspeed Variant 313 in Moersch Easy Lith 1+10
Briefly toned in selenium: Moersch MT 1 1+10
Nikon F3 + Ai Nikkor 20mm f3.5 + Kentmere Pan 400 (EI 200)
Developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 13:30 at 20 °C
Print scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.