This is the first result of my very recent return to Rodinal.
http://48pixels.com/images/rocks01.jpg
Please post your rocks.
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This is the first result of my very recent return to Rodinal.
http://48pixels.com/images/rocks01.jpg
Please post your rocks.
Nice shot and nice idea for a thread.
Lovely image, Colin! Compared to that, it's no great loss if you can't see mine. :) But I just checked and it loads fine for me, both PC and Mac.
Mick - thanks for commenting. What kind of a system/browser are you viewing it on? I am on a calibrated iMac with a gamma set to 2.2. The negative was scanned and then post-processed to match the display. The processing consisted of post-capture sharpening, a couple of curves and a couple of dodge/burn layers. The way I see the image on my monitor is from roughly Zone III for the shadow between the two rocks in front to Zone VIII for highlights. And it was a very contrasty scene to begin with.
That being said, yes, I still need to determine proper development - this was the first batch after determining ISO for this combo. I still need to pin down the exact development times for N- and N+.
Took a few minutes for your image to show up on my end, Marko, probably what Mick was commenting on as well. I edited my reply accordingly. That is a lovely sharp image with wonderful tones on my monitor- makes me wonder why I ever stopped using rodinal.
Here is my fav rock shot. Shot in the Paria Wilderness. It is a 645 but it was the shot that said go to LF. Just a simple neg scan.
Right then. Here's a nice little rock face from Joshua Tree NP.
Hi Marko,
Colin is right, your posting didn't contain the image for a while so I made a lame attempt at humor.
Your shot is lovely, and has very good tones on my monitor. I've never used anything but HP5+/HC110, so was interested to see your use of Rodinal.
-Mick
Nice shot Marko. I've never tried using Rodinal....I've always found it easy to use PMK or HC110 Dil B. I thought they stopped making Rodinal.
No problem, Mick. I didn't realize it was a joke simply because everything looked in ordnung on my side. But yeah, I can easily see the joke in the context. :)
I used to love Ilford films in Microphen, way back in my film days. Starting with HP4 and on. I found Rodinal interesting with FP4 back then too, but not too much and it was easier for me to simply standardize on one developer and two films.
Now that I'm getting back to film again, this time LF and MF, I find myself having a lot of fun running film/developer combo tests. This one was done on FP4+ in Rodinal 1+50, and the next in line is Delta 100. And I can already say that I really love the stuff.
David, there are a few Rodinal clones out there and the original is also being sold again. I got mine at Freestyle. It's cheap, very easy to use as one-shot and it keeps long. It yields very little fog and very sharp negatives. Their processing instructions are almost spot-on, at least for the films I tried so far.
The only downside is - it may not be as good for faster films. I plan on running a bunch of tests with Tri-X and HP5+ in DD-X, D76 and HC110.
shot in late 2007, I've been meaning to get back up there with the 90mm!
http://404photography.net/wip/4x5/4x5_corral_05.jpg
http://404photography.net/wip/4x5/4x5_corral_06.jpg
Here is one.
FP4+ developed in Rodinal.
Rocks and some water...
Both with 150mm Xenar
Porpoise Rocks - Alabama Hills
for a larger view - http://web.mac.com/razeichner/iWeb/R...e%20Rocks.html
Of course not. I usually run a MF roll first, find out the ballpark exposure and dev time and then fine tune with sheet film. It's mostly a blank light gray wall on the north side of my place shot through a white diffuser. Easily replaceable too, since it's always the same frame. :)
Seriously, I heard the same thing about Delta 100, but I also heard that its reciprocity is very tame and linear, so it might be an interesting long exposure film.
Here's my ugly duck that will make all the beautiful pictures in this thread look even better! :D
Wolfe's Neck, Maine
4x5, Symmar-S 5.6/210, Fomapan 200, Barry Thornton's 2 bath developer
here are some rocks from Oregon coast
BR
More crap from the attic.
Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley:
http://www.rbarkerphoto.com/Misc/Tra...aicNarrows.jpg
FP4+ in DD-X, as I recall
Swampscott (MA) beach
The Glove
Pine Canyon, Zion NP.
Tumble Creek
Here's one from Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland
ILford FP4 D 76 1:1 Mamiya RB67 (To excuse to me, was before having my Linhof)
Two from Weston's Beach, Point Lobos State Park.
Rocks
Great Falls of the Potomac with a 150mm Sironar and Fomapan 200.
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3...atfallsxo8.jpg
Nathan, Nice image. looks to be wide angle, yes?
shen hao 4x5 90mm grandagon
efke 25 in rodinal 1:50
los angeles area
http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Ba...eTryptich1.jpg
Canyon of the Little Colorado
450mm Fujinon C on 4X5 Fuji Neopan.
John Sexton's rock
Absolutely great work shown in this thread, by everybody.
Having said that, I also have to add: Wow, Jim! One of your best pieces that I've seen so far!
Here's a few from the Bisti Badlands.
Tafoni, Northern Channel Islands, California
Fujinon-A 240mm, RVP50, 81C
A river that looked better than it smelled. 180 symmar and fp4.
Hi Ken. 35°55'05.23"N, 111°32'34.93"W in Google Earth. Do you concur or am I at the wrong spot. BTW for the others, this was on a Barnbaum workshop and the reason I got the 450 out is because of the other photogs in front of me. I believe it worked out well. Thanks. Jim
timbo10ca, vinny,
Thanks very much! I used a Schneider 90mm lens on a Shen-Hao 4x5. I took two shots with the back shifted all the way to the left and right extremes and then stitched them together in Photoshop. Kind of the poor man's 4x10 I suppose.
Film was most likely Ilford Delta-100 in perceptol developer.
My version of John Sexton's rock! Sunwapta Falls, Jasper National Park.
Hmmm, I'm not sure about that. I think we were all camped out here:
35°55'7.79"N, 111°32'34.93"W
which is slightly north and west of your marker. That is, unless you hiked around to that protrusion. I know that I didn't, although I did move around to get a similar perspective to yours....
It's a nice set of shots - I'm sure it looks good printed!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2343/...ae1c4e90_o.jpg
cranking up the saturation...
A couple from Point Lobos, CA, October '06. "Big rock shaped like a hand" and "Guano rock," but I'm sure there's an official name for at least the second one.
Drew