post your trees!

[venchka]

Texas. Fog. Trees.

Linhof Technika V
Kodak Ektar 127mm 1:4.7
Ilford Hp5+
Xtol 1:3

Thanks for looking.





Thanks for looking. Feel free to tell me what you think of these images.

[PaulRicciardi]

Paul, x-ray film is great but you can not cut it down. It will always scratch. Need to develop in tanks or one at a time in a smooth bottom tray.

jim

Jim, I hate the stuff, have yet to get a negative that's not scratched and haven't been able to get a single printable neg. Developing the sheets one at a time in a smooth bottomed 11x14 tray with plenty of chemicals, still scratches terribly.
Scanning the negatives works maybe 50% of the time, but I throw out most of the negatives cause they're utter rubbish.

Never had this problem in 4x5 with Efke 25, another soft emulsion.

Pretty much relegated the plate camera to shooting either paper positives/negatives or dry plates both of which are much easier for me to work with and seem to give more consistent results. Picked up an 8x10 pinhole for film-hopefully that will give me some negatives I can actually print in the darkroom!

[Vaughn]

Last Valley Light

scanned 4x10 platinum/palladium print

[SamReeves]

On the road to Geyser Peak. About '97.

Fantastic.

[ljb0904]

Jim, that's beautiful!

Great images everyone...

A recent image.

jim k

Morning Hoar Frost, Roxborough, Alberta, Canada, 2010

[ljb0904]

Preston, this is awesome! Nice image!

Yosemite-El Capitan Meadow-Christmas Eve 2009

Tachihara 4x5
210 Symmar-S
Astia 100F

--Preston

[Robert Hughes]

Jim, I hate the stuff, have yet to get a negative that's not scratched and haven't been able to get a single printable neg.

Practice makes perfect. I've had better luck recently, using an 8x10 flat bottom enamelled tray - 7 minutes one side, then 7 minutes side two, trying for minimal movement of the bottom emulsion against the tray.

[mandoman7]

Fantastic.

I'm glad you like it. It was a neg that had gotten misplaced after having trouble printing it a few years ago. Here's one from this morning.



We've been getting a lot of water this year.
HP5/PMK, 90mm Nikkor

[David Hedley]

John, that's excellent.

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Jim, I hate the stuff, have yet to get a negative that's not scratched and haven't been able to get a single printable neg. Developing the sheets one at a time in a smooth bottomed 11x14 tray with plenty of chemicals, still scratches terribly.
Scanning the negatives works maybe 50% of the time, but I throw out most of the negatives cause they're utter rubbish.

Never had this problem in 4x5 with Efke 25, another soft emulsion.

Pretty much relegated the plate camera to shooting either paper positives/negatives or dry plates both of which are much easier for me to work with and seem to give more consistent results. Picked up an 8x10 pinhole for film-hopefully that will give me some negatives I can actually print in the darkroom!

Paul, are you cutting the 8x10 film down to whole plate? If so the scratching comes from the cutting and not from the development.

Jim