Adventures in...pushing TriX

[swifty63]

I was in Istanbul last week and took some shots inside the Hagia Sophia museum. I knew it would be dim inside, so I pushed Tri-X to EI1600, here are some of the results. Negatives came out thin and contrasty, grainy in the shadows as I had read would happen. I underexposed most shots, so mostly grainy and contrasty. Developed in D-76 stock for recommended times.
This was my first time doing this, so I am on the lower part of the learning curve. I should have exposed for longer / opened up a bit more. Most of the times were 60 or 125 / sec. at between f.5.6 to f.8 on my Mamiya 6 / 50mm. Hope I can improve on these results next time - maybe I should have just used 3200 film?
Cheers
Swifty

 

[swifty63]

 

[Moriturii]

Images look great man! I always loved slightly under-exposed pictures for some reason, I must be nuts.

Maybe want to try rodinal stand dev next time?

 

[johannielscom]

I wouldn't change a thing, nothing wrong here. Great shots, envious!

Tri-X in Rodinal stand dev. I tried and did not like. Much grainier than this. Same with T-Max @ 1600, should also go in D-76 and not Rodinal stand dev.

 

[Ezzie]

I think the brain adjusts to the fact that it expects indoor lighting to be darker. As such I think these work very well.

 

[Dana B.]

I have little experience with pushing Tri-X, but I think these exposures look fine a little on the dark side. The wide-angle MF rocks. I think D76 is one of the perfect developers for Tri-X, though I go 1:1. Frankly, not sure why so many here feel they must use Rodinal (now so conventional, it makes the standby D-76 look alternative). What was your dev time?

 

[Ronald_H]

Images look fine to me. If you want to push Tri-X you could also consider Diafine. Some people seem look down on Diafine because it is too easy. Nevertheless, with Tri-X it is a golden combination under high contrast lighting. Here is an example at a concert. It is actually from the first roll I ever developed myself. 35mm, Nikon FM.


Gert Bettens (K's Choice), Woodface by Ronald_H, on Flickr