Images from a Donald Trump rally and corresponding protest

[jbenedict]

These came out really nice. Do you remember what f-stop you used? I'm guessing about f/8? Throwing out the background works really well here.

[Corran]

Thanks pierre, Mark, and jbenedict.

Most of the outdoor shoots on the HP5+ was with an R25 filter at between f/4 and f/5.6. Portra 400 didn't have the filter so I was stopped down a bit more.

[Drew Wiley]

The rendering of that Xenotar is really nice (particularly in b&w). I haven't paid much attention to these lenses before.

[john borrelli]

I am very impressed with this work.

My first thought was "you can't do this on large format," and then of course I remembered that you could. Reportage with bokeh, this is the kind of work that keeps me coming back to this forum. Congratulations.

[Bill_1856]

Bryon, I've been looking for a new combination of film/developer to replace my Tri-X/Pyro. Your HP5/Acufine looks pretty good, but do you think that your examples might be a little underexposed? Did you shoot it at 400?

[LabRat]

Nice shots!!!! Great that you brought the Linhof, but for this subject, you also could have used a TLR with a sportsfinder/EL finder) + big flash with the B/W, for an Arbus-like effect, to save the sore wrist effect...

Interesting page in history… :-)

Steve K

[Corran]

Thanks folks.

Bill, my meter was indeed set to 400, but my metering is pretty off-the-cuff for this kind of thing. I did a quick spot meter of the back of my hand and used that as a grey card for a couple of shots...oh wait here's a bit of shadow, open up a stop...that sorta thing. The shadows are very open and if anything the development was too short, pushing down highlights. I pulled down the shadows a bit in post. Anyway, I think Acufine is the greatest, most versatile developer out there. It gives full speed, sometimes a bit more depending on the film. Highly recommended. But don't take these as gospel examples .

[rich815]

Really great images, thanks for sharing!

[Kirk Gittings]

Thanks folks.

Bill, my meter was indeed set to 400, but my metering is pretty off-the-cuff for this kind of thing. I did a quick spot meter of the back of my hand and used that as a grey card for a couple of shots...oh wait here's a bit of shadow, open up a stop...that sorta thing. The shadows are very open and if anything the development was too short, pushing down highlights. I pulled down the shadows a bit in post. Anyway, I think Acufine is the greatest, most versatile developer out there. It gives full speed, sometimes a bit more depending on the film. Highly recommended. But don't take these as gospel examples .

Nice work-especially the b&w. If you are an average white guy, the back of the hand is more like Zone VI-not the equivalent of a grey card and would lead to underexposure by about a stop.

[Corran]

Thanks Rich, and Kirk.

Yeah, I used to abide by the "Zone VI" thing but my negatives came out dense, so I pulled that down to V and it seems to work well, for me. It could be I'm a shade darker or just a quirk of my uncalibrated meter.