Still life images 2016

**Robert Langham** · 30-Nov-2016, 17:39

Shooting a couple more ideas before I tear down the tornado and re-configure it. Contact of 8X10 negative. HP5/Pyrocat.

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**Rory_5244** · 30-Nov-2016, 17:55

Gorgeous! Wish I had that kind of imagination.

**Robert Langham** · 5-Dec-2016, 09:27

Rory: Thanks. I just start with a stupid idea....and keep working it. If I try for a genius idea first...well, that's beyond my reach. But it turned out I WAS kind of a genius at having a stupid idea. Then it's just the usual work.

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**Robert Langham** · 7-Dec-2016, 08:02

More tornados.

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**bob carnie** · 7-Dec-2016, 08:46

Robert I really like these, but I do not love the baseboard, somehow I think that having the tornado coming out of a solid nondescript background would be more preferable to me.

**jharr** · 8-Dec-2016, 17:14

First successful Rockland tintype.

SpeedGraphic-Tintype-002 by James Harr, on Flickr

**koraks** · 12-Dec-2016, 05:12

A test with 2-bath Pyrocat HD to see if the approach would work. I tried it once before, but got very uneven development. This time I did a presoak of about a minute in 20C water, followed by ca. 5 minutes in bath A 1:10 and then 5 minutes in B 1:10. It worked very well indeed, yielding very evenly developed negatives with good shadow detail, a seemingly very nicely linear curve in the midtones and well-controlled highlights. I haven't been able to reproduce this success though; a second attempt with Pyrocat MC didn't work at all (uneven development, uncontrollable contrast).

Symmar-S 300/5.6 @ f/16, ca. 1 minute, green-sensitive x-ray film rated at ISO 50.

**Ken Lee** · 12-Dec-2016, 08:27

You are more likely to avoid unevenness if you add some wetting agent and use rotary development.

With some subjects (like the cloth in your photo) the unevenness is hard to detect. However, there are some artifacts on the pages of the book in both photos.

**koraks** · 12-Dec-2016, 10:39

I thought about the pages, but they aren't completely flat, so I think they are actually shadows that were really there. Wetting agent is a good idea; for rotary development, I currently don't have appropriate drums that allow the use of double sided film.