Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
jbf said:
No filters used. Thats just the way the sky usually is in Santa Fe. Its so deep blue that a filter would distort it, really. Both shots were done in Santa Fe, both in the winter at the beginning of this year. The Rainbow snow one was done earliest...we got a lot of snow this year. The War protester was done as winter was ending, on a sunny blue sky day. Overcast days like the Rainbow Snow photo show are rare even in winter here.
I've used Rodinal for both HP5 and Tri-X and never saw an unsharp mask halo effect. Rodinal isn't that strong of an acutance developer....it improves sharpness nicely without distorting the tonality like extremely high acutance developers can.
You mentioned handholding slow films in another post. Both these were handheld. On sunny days, handholding Pan-F is easy. here I get exposures on sunny days in winter of around 1/60 at f8 or 11. That's enough for handholding most things that aren't moving. The snow scene was an overcast day and I think it was about 1/15 at f8. i'm good at handholding slow speeds.
Both shots were done with an Olympus OM-4T and Olympus Zuiko 35mm f2 lens. Both Pan-F at EI 50. The Rainbow Snow photo developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 12 minutes at 68 deg and the Protester was developed at a local pro lab that uses straight Xtol, undiluted. Don't know the dev time. I have processed film since I was a kid but I had a lab do some stuff for me when I went back to film after flirting with digital because I had left my developing tanks at my parents house in Indiana. I eventually got my family to round up my tanks and ship them to me so I could do my own. I like Rodinal a lot more than Xtol.
