Developed my first roll! (C&C)

[ChrisP]

Just developed my first roll of film, hp5+ pushed to 1600 in d-76 1:1 for 18 minutes. What do you guys think? Composition in all of them isn't fantastic but I shot whatever I saw to get the roll done?

Any idea for developing (more time? less time? more agitation? less? anything that you can suggest) would be greatly appreciated. But I think I like them, to me their grainy and contrast and look like they're film not digital.

Oh and they were all scanned on my Epson 4490 that arrived today!

 

[ChrisP]

and a few more

and a few more

a few more
p.s. what is the best way to get more than 3 images in a post without using flickr or any other services? Can I link them from my RFF gallrty somehow?

 

[ChrisP]

And the last 2

And the last 2

The last 2

 

[paulfish4570]

looks to me you did a fine job, Chris. i really like the marble shot.

 

[Pirate]

Looks good! Since these came out good, I'd do another roll and see if it comes out the same. You want to learn consistency before you start changing things up too much.

 

[mathomas]

They look really good, esp for first-time, and for a 2-stop push.

 

[ibcrewin]

it's like crack. Cussin' love developing film

 

[stinny]

the photos are beautiful.

i use an epson 4490 too but can't seem to get good results. what resolution do you can at, and do you tweak the default settings?

i've also used the film mounts that came with the scanner but have problems with anti-newton rings. have you encountered similar problems in your first roll?

 

[Ronald M]

Write down what you did and do not change it.

18 min seems very excessive, but I can not argue with results.

 

[ChrisP]

My settings

My settings

the photos are beautiful.

i use an epson 4490 too but can't seem to get good results. what resolution do you can at, and do you tweak the default settings?

i've also used the film mounts that came with the scanner but have problems with anti-newton rings. have you encountered similar problems in your first roll?

I don't know what Anti-Newton Rings are but I don't think I've had problems with them.

I don't know all my settings forsure, I'll check when I get home today but as far I remember I set it up is

Film
Black and White Negative
24 bit color
scan at 1200 dpi (I haven't done more yet, I mostly just use it to preview and post images, I have a local store that still does wet prints so I might send some to them) also I hear that 2400 dpi is good, anything past that is useless.

Save as tiff
and turn all sharpening and ICE settings off (no checks in the last 3 or 5 boxes or however many there are)
I tried using the ICE settings, it made things really "blobby" sometimes, and I read it doesn't actually work for black and white and I do sharpening in lightroom so I just turn it all off.

Than I open the TIFFs in Lightroom, sharpen a little (maybe 50 at .8 radius) and convert to B+W (since I scan as 24 bit color theres a little teal and purple in the histogram, converting to B+W takes that out - I assume this is a very small amount of CA).

Save as Jpeg from there and I'm done. It doesn't take long because I have a B+W film preset that changes it to sharpened and B+W converted.

 

[Borghesia]

to me their grainy and contrast and look like they're film not digital.

That's the reason I shoot film !
Great first try, you did a better job then I did on my first development.
Neopan 1600 is a grainy film, try Tri-x in D76, that film will give you smoother (analog) results.