Alaska, Ektar, Tmax and Rodinal

[mugent]

Both b&w and color are great, but I prefer the color, they have much more of a "feel" to me, I can imagine being there, but b&w lacks this. One of the things I love about lanscapes such as yours is the colour of the sky, the sunsets etc... This is lost in mono.

 

[ferider]

Thanks again ....

I have one awfully technical question - how did you find switching between SLR and RF? Or are you already used to it?

Matus, good question. I took the OM2 for the 180/2.8, which I really like, and the Aurora that I was hoping for. Then, in practice, using the OM for color and Leica for B+W worked out really well due to the use of Pol and yellow/red filters.

Below the last pictures, I promise 🙂 Maybe a sacriledge to some, but I like to digitally stitch panoramas, also from self-developed B+W pictures. All taken with the 35 Summicron:

Beaver Pond:

Valley of 10000 Smokes:

Wonder Lake:

Denali Canyon (view from Grand Denali Lodge) :

Best,

Roland.

 

[raid]

These are beautiful, Roland.

 

[Bingley]

Wow! I particularly like the third one. Great, Roland, thanks for posting!

 

[Vincent.G]

Very nice work! Looks like you had a bountiful trip. 🙂

 

[TXForester]

Beautiful work. The ram is impressive. My understanding is they are a skittish animal, and you don't get to see them close very often.

Edit: There are some places along roads where they will frequent to get at the salt put down by road crews.

 

[robert blu]

the panos photos are impressive !
robert

 

[Way]

Great stuff Roland! We stayed at Brooks for a few days and loved it. Thank you for sharing.

 

[shadowfox]

Late to the party as usual, and Wow!
All are great. But the one above is my personal favorite.

 

[Field]

What were your exposures and rodinal processing like? I usually hate Tmax... but many of these are actually worth looking at.

 

[jamesj]

WOW.

This thread is beautiful.

- james

 

[ferider]

Thanks, Will & James.

What were your exposures and rodinal processing like? I usually hate Tmax... but many of these are actually worth looking at.

- nominal speeds: Tmax 100 @ 80 ASA, Tmax 400 @ 400.
- yellow/K2 filter: @ - 2/3rd of a stop (= @50 ASA for Tmax 100)
- red/R25 filter: @ - 3 stops

For both films, Rodinal 1:100 (3ml per roll), 30', gentle inversion every 3 minutes after the first minute. Tmax is quite new to me, too. But I tested before the trip, and I like the yellow sensitivity and relatively low grain (for Rodinal standards, that is).

Roland.

PS: for those of you who liked the Grizzly above: based on Dawid's feedback I fixed the highlights yesterday:

 

[Field]

Thanks. I think I over-develop when I use Rodinal so any of my more lightly exposed frames look wrong. (plus I found out on my Rodinal bottle where it says Pan F means the old stuff not the + ).

Maybe I will use Tmax in the future since it is cheap. I do like 100asa for flash compatibility (my old flash).

 

[filmfan]

Thanks. I think I over-develop when I use Rodinal so any of my more lightly exposed frames look wrong.

Careful not to over-agitate. This is what I did when first learning how to use Rodinal. You know you're agitating Rodinal properly when you feel as though it's not enough.

Edit: I forgot to mention how good the photos are! Great color and BW.

 

[semrich]

Roland you can feel justified for pride in all those shots, especially that moment with the the wolf.