Finally, Spring!
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The last image (chronologically) from my "Night Shift" exhibit last year. This was taken at the Earl Boyles Elementary School in Portland, Oregon. I liked the way that the street light ignited the blossoms on the cherry tree.
I was experimenting with front tilt for this image, but I couldn't get the entire tree in focus. I wanted to keep exposure below a minute, so my aperture had to be wider than I wanted. There was gang activity in the area at the time, so I had to make the shot as quickly as possible.
This was shot on 8x10 film, and contact printed before scanning. I have yet to figure out why I have to sharpen an image like this in Photoshop to get it even reasonably close to the sharpness of the original. I've thought about auto sharpening during the scan, but that seems somehow redundant for an 8x10 contact print. Maybe I'm just being stubborn.
Camera: Deardorff 8x10.
Lens: 12" Kodak Ektar.
Film: Ilford HP5+ developed in Agfa Rodinol.
Contact printed on Ilford MGIV.