From last week's stroll in the woods, after the snow has melted rather rapidly. Scan of a darkroom print.
Thanks. Sometimes shooting daylight film under fluorescent lighting, and lacking a 'white balance' control, is a good thing.
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Here's one from (gulp) 25 years ago, but just scanned this week.
Nikon F3, Kodachrome
Jonathan
Tuco another beauty.
I liked this fire hydrant at dusk.
tuco inspired me to load up some TMZ and try something. I went downtown since it was dark and shot some random stuff, metered at 400 (but added a bit due to some longer exposures sometimes), and developed in highly dilute T-Max RS (I think 1:20 is about what I did). Semi-stand for one hour. What I got is fairly impressive considering. The grain is tight, the shadows are nice and open, and the detail is very nice considering the small negative. I will have to try some Pyrocat but I need to buy some fresh stock. Anyway, here is a shot from the roll:
Yeah, and that photo was not a good example of the compression...it was just one I liked! It did compress the scene. I will post a better example: I have taken similar photos to this and the streetlamps always are blown out completely along with the area around it. Here they've been rendered clearly. The high dilution I believe is not developing to completion - these negatives were a little thin. From what I understand T-Max RS is technically a compensating developer, which is why I thought this would work. I think it would be fruitful to experiment more, though admittedly when I get some fresh pyro I might abandon it.
No, keep working with the T-max. I picked some up and was planning to try it. You can do the R&D for us all I was looking at and scanned some much older negatives recently for a family thing. I had used T-Max film and T-Max developer on those. I liked the results and want to take another look at the combo.
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