safe haven for tiny formats

[Frank Petronio]

Mac’s Drive-In in Waterloo - closes for the season tomorrow, Labor Day.

[mdm]

Panasonic Lumix LX5

[jcoldslabs]

Panasonic Lumix LX5

An unusual use of digital for a low-fi, low-key look with lots of negative space. Strong mood in this one. A bit like Moonrise, Hernandez without the Hernandez!

Jonathan

[mdm]

I wouldnt get carried away, I was just pissing around on the deck. Made a few but like this best.

[jcoldslabs]

Fair enough.

J.

[Leigh]

I thought this thread was for tiny FILM formats. ???

- Leigh

[mdm]

You are a fundamentalist, go to APUG where you belong.

[goamules]

Pen-F 38/1.8 and Fuji 200:

[Peter Mounier]

I thought this thread was for tiny FILM formats. ???

- Leigh

From the first page of this thread ...

safe haven for tiny formats
Hello,,, post your 35mm, 6x4.5, 6x6, 6x7,6x9,6x12, DSLR, p&s, half frame, 110, 126, and any other non-LF size I didn't mention..

So don't be shy,,, we know you have em

Peter

[Roger Cole]

My now wife, then fiance Alicia in New Orleans last year. We love New Orleans and try to get down there for a few days at least twice a year. She really liked this.

Unfortunately I managed to scratch a negative for the first time in decades. Lots and lots of wiping increasingly carelessly with an antistaticum cloth eventually caught up with me and reminded me that lightly is ok (has always been in my experience anyway) and more than lightly is not. What's worse, in the past when I had done this years ago I've never had a backing scratch, that printed white, that wasn't rendered invisible or very nearly so by Edwal no-scratch or a dab of skin oil from a cotton swab. I tried both on this one to no avail. I can't even tell the difference, and the scratch is all but invisible to the eye even under oblique light from the enlarger. I've removed it effectively enough at this resolution, if quite inexpertly, in Photoshop, but I'm a bit at a loss for my silver print. You have to look fairly closely (or be a photographer - we always look closely, right?) so I'm seriously thinking of including this with some other portraits I have and just saying nothing about it. 90%+ of folks won't notice. I guess that's cheating but so be it.


Alicia In New Orleans by Roger Cole, on Flickr

EDIT: Oops, meant to post the details:

Yashicamat 124, Ilford FP4+, D76 1+1, printed on Ilford MGWT FB, Ilford WT developer, very lightly brown toned.