My First Negative!

[Dr_Rocks]

Hi all! New to the forums, and new to LF photography (and film). I have a Toyo monorail camera with a xenar 150mm lens, and I just developed the first picture I took with it last night. This is a picture of limestone kilns in western PA.

Used TMax 400, D76 developer in a HP tank. First time ever developing film, but I was pretty pleased with the results! I just put the negative on a flatbed scanner and inverted it in photoshop, then set the black and white points (you can see stripes in the image, those aren't on the negative. Going to run another batch today, I got dust all over this negative, going to have to make sure to clean everything properly this time!

-Chris


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[Jay DeFehr]

Is it wrong that I like it as it is?

[hmf]

I like the shallow depth of field, although would like to see a little more crispness in the wall and that first complete kiln on the right. Unless the softness is just on my monitor.

Nice start!