Well, here is my first effort actually shooting this film with an idea of outcome in mind. I'm not a nature or landscape photographer but I love the tones, softness and details in this image. This is an uncropped 8x10 shot made on Kodak Ektascan B/RA mammography x-ray film.
I wandering this weekend looking for interesting things to photograph and see the tones and range of this inexpensive film. About an hour from my house I found a state park with some quite beautiful small trees that I came to learn are Ironwood trees. They have a beautiful reddish smooth surface and the leaves and branches were quite beautiful. It was 105 degrees so I didn't wander far from the car to find a tree so I was forced to shoot a detail shot so that the parking lot or other elements wouldn't be visible in the image. Overall I love the tones and rendering of out-of-focus areas. I think that there are several crops of this image that would be more beautiful than the whole but I posted it here so that you could see how beautifully (in my opinion) that tones can be rendered by cheap film.
Deardorff 8x10 + Kodak 12" Commercial Ektar
Kodak Ektascan B/RA X-Ray Film
80 asa at 1/100 - f16
Tray processed in Adinol 1:100
Agitation for 1 minute followed by 15 seconds every minute
Scanned on an Epson 750 Pro
Ironwood Detail by
ScottPhoto.co, on Flickr
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