Chinabery tree in Summer:
I shot the same Chinaberry tree last Winter.
Good, bad and ugly links:
A lot of these have appeared recently, I just forgot to delete them from my dock until now, so here they are again. There's new stuff to, so you'll just have to look at all of them. As usual, if I've stolen your link, outright lied about you or published your nude picture without permission, I humbly appologize. Please write me a detailed description of your complaint and include your suggested remedy.
Fifteen Pictures About Fifteen Pictures
After thinking about film development, I caught the bug. I dug out the magic lantern I mean the film camera, found an old roll of Tri-X and shot up my back yard in the late afternoon sunlight. The exposures were guessed, as the Mamiya is a totally manual camera.
I did this procedure, except I skipped steps 6 and 17 because I didn't have any. So I measured out two and a half ounces of HC-110 developer and diluted it to half a liter, and checked it's temperature:
My fixer was a few years old, but I mixed it anyway.
Some drinking water was sacrificed for the wetting agent.
And when I went to set the timer, nothing. No ticks, no tocks, so I opened it up:
Bummer.
The hall clock has a sweep second hand, so I just had to pay attention to the total elapsed time. The film was developed with a minute added to the development time because the film was two years out of date.
Rather than try to keep the old fixer, I dumped it (don't look, it's gross.)
Since I didn't have any hypo clearing agent, I just rinsed with extra water, first a tankfull at a time, then with continous flow.
The tube directs the incomming water to the bottom of the tank, and it flows up through the film and down the drain.
After 20 minutes of continous washing, the film was agitated for a minute in the wetting agent, which was then disgarded (I'll spare you this time.)
Whoa! When I took the film off the spool with my wetted hands, I was glad to see it had images! This is the point where film really differs from digital. Until you look at it after development - after you have invested quite a bit of effort into it, you aren't sure your photographs will be there.
But they were, so I hung the developed filmstrip in the shower enclosure to dry.
And cleaned up the equipment.
Here is a 'contact sheet' of the roll of film. It's really a photograph of the film sitting on a lightbox, then the values inverted in Lab color mode, so the color would remain the same as the negatives.
From the 'contact sheet' I could see some photos warrented a closer look.
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