Yes, that is what it looks like. Otherwise there would be at least a trace of black somewhere probably.
Guess I'm officially not shooting enough then.
Yes, that is what it looks like. Otherwise there would be at least a trace of black somewhere probably.
Guess I'm officially not shooting enough then.
A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne
Yes, that's what I always thought too. I do always see a bit of a drop in strength between a newly opened bottle and one that is open for a few months, but this is really strange.
It's almost impossible for me to mix up the developer and the fixer, since I develop in a daylight tank. The fixer is from a bottle, the developer from a measuring cup. And it was semi-stand developed too, so there has to be at least something, even if the contrast isn't perfect.
Photography was a COVID casualty for me. Just have to do a hard reset with new materials and pick it up again.
A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne
This was a double negative that I realized right after I took the shot. I was initially pissed at myself since I was winding down on my available film for this trip. I actually kind of like this one. At first glance the snow capped Grand Tetons look in place behind the rock formations in the Arches National Park. The rainbow was a pleasant surprise at the Arches.
I was able to catch the rainbow with my backup cameras. A 6x6 and iPhone lol, so no tears shed.
-Mikey
This one is a double mistake. First, I used the 2-stop ND filter on my Imagon when I probably would have been better off without it, so it's about 2 stops under-exposed. Then, I didn't know that Adox Rodinal has a 24 month shelf life according to Adox (unlike Agfa Rodinal which apparently lasted for decades), and I did get 5 good years of use out of my bottle. Unfortunately, I bought it 6 years ago, so I lost at least another stop. Rather than do a lot of testing with my remaining Adox Rodinal, I dumped it. Sheet film is too expensive these days.
My wife says it looks "mysterious." I just see a super thin negative barely salvaged by my scanner:
05-16-2023-04 by Drew Saunders, on Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/
From a recently-completed HABS project in Michigan, file this one under the "missing the elephant in the room" label. How on earth did I not notice my camera gear bags in the foreground? I really have no idea, other than that it was near the end of a long and hot day last summer. Still--years experience does not protect one against the occasional numbskull moment, it seems. So, after a decade or two when NPS gets caught up on scanning HABS/HAER negatives, one of my film holder bags and my digital camera bag will be recorded for posterity in the Library of Congress.
Bruce
4x5, 90mm Fujinon, Ilford FP4
"It's in there for scale. Yeah, that's the ticket."
< spoken in best Jon Lovitz' SNL voice>
Somewhere, I have a landscape photo with my tripod in it.
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