Patriotism on the South Side

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I made this photograph the same day as the Candy Store picture that I posted yesterday. This house is about half a mile away from that place, in Fort Wayne's south side 'inner-city' area.

Neopan 1600 at EI-640, developed in D-76 1+1. Shot in an M6 with 50mm tabbed Summicron.

 

[gb hill]

Looks really nice Chris. I have 3 rolls of Neopan 1600. Never shot it before, do you always shoot it at an EI of 640?

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Looks really nice Chris. I have 3 rolls of Neopan 1600. Never shot it before, do you always shoot it at an EI of 640?

Yeah, I do. It is REALLY contrasty at 1600. If you like a lot of contrast, then it gives it at 1600, but shadow detail is poor. For 640 it gives full shadow detail and contrast slightly higher than normal films like Tri-X.

Try it at 640 and develop in D-76 1+1 for 7 minutes at 68 degrees. Agitate first 30 seconds, then 2 inversions of the tank every 30 seconds.

Here are a couple more examples at 640 and 1600.

 

[gb hill]

I like the photo of your son. It does have that contrasty look that I like. Looks good too at IE 640. In fact I think I'm liking it better than TriX at this speed. I'll give it a whirl. thanks!

 

[robklurfield]

Chris, the shadow detail in that room is pretty amazing.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Chris, the shadow detail in that room is pretty amazing.

Mostly stuff right up against the window, the rest of the interior of the room is obscured by reflections on the glass. The Neopan 1600 film does pretty good for shadow detail at EI-640 though.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I don't see a pure white, but that is as much a matter of taste as it is a technical issue. Nice shot, very interesting that it is a pre-1959 48 star flag.

I don't think this picture had anything that should have rendered pure white...the flag's stripes and stars and the white lace were both inside the house and somewhat shaded because of that and the wood under the window wasn't white. The sky is close, but I try to keep bright white skies (common here in Indiana where we have a lot of brightly lit but overcast days) from blowing to pure white because when printed it looks ugly if there isn't a little bit of tone in there.

I didn't notice about the flag being an old version, that is interesting!