Show Your Beautiful Grain Technique

[Jiloo]

Have to admit I love nice grainy pictures. And you just help me made a decision to start developing b&w films on my own. Just started to looking for canister and chemicals.

Here is my example of grain. Unfortunately it's 6x4,5 MF photo, so grain is rather small.
Rolei RPX400 @1600 developed in a lab (they use T-Max developer)


Boguś. processing images by itsJiloo, on Flickr

EDIT: Foget to mention RPX400 was pushed to 1600.

 

[Roninman]

Neopan 400 in Rodinal 1+50 11 min 20c

 

[Roninman]

Fomopan 100 in Rodinal 1:100 semi stand, 20c



I love Rodinal but I must try some others..

 

[shadowfox]

Fuji Superia 800 converted into B&W.

 

[Photo_Smith]

Tri-x, Rodinal 1:50 M4-P, Elmar ƒ2,8

Tri-x at EI800 Rodinal 1:50

 

[Andrea Taurisano]

I feel stupid now for never giving Neopan 400 (and 1600!) a try. Those results look fabulous. That being said, we should have remembered to say two words about the scanning, as I see that is far from irrelevant to the way grain looks. Seeing the results above makes me just wonder how did people scan so nicely.

 

[benji77]

Slightly off topic here, but after I started printing do I then learn that high ISO (800 - 1600 above), does not really matter on print. In fact, its lovely! Digitally they may appear 'grainy and noisy', but in actual print, they look fabulous, and I would say can even go much 'faster'.

A sample from a ISO 800 TriX negative printed on Ilford paper

 

[kiemchacsu]

Grain, I have grain
400TX pushed 1600 souped in HC-110 B. Full set can be seen here


110806_Tinhgia_09_400TX by kiemchacsu, on Flickr

 

[teddy]

Victour Harbour Jetty, South Australia

Leica M3, Summicron 50/2 DR (1957), Orange Filter, Tri-X 400, Adonal 1:100 @ 60 Mins, Semi Stand, Epson 3170 Scanner, Lightroom

Although I used sharpening, I still like the grain that Tri-X produces.

 

[teddy]

Slightly off topic here, but after I started printing do I then learn that high ISO (800 - 1600 above), does not really matter on print. In fact, its lovely! Digitally they may appear 'grainy and noisy', but in actual print, they look fabulous, and I would say can even go much 'faster'.

A sample from a ISO 800 TriX negative printed on Ilford paper

Truly fantastic and inspirational.

 

[daveywaugh]

I am pretty sure (I have lost this neg unfortunately) that this was Delta 400 shot @ 1600 and developed in D76. Storm in Mongolia. I have some 8x10 wet prints that I love and wished I could find the neg... ;-)

 

[HuubL]

Fog and film grain teaming up.
Leica M7, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Plus-X developed in Amaloco.

 

[emjo]

Not so much a technique as fooling around with Fomapan 400 at 1600ASA. Then "standard soup" HC-110 1+60. Camera: Canon T70 50/1.8.

 

[adresaba]

HP5+ pushed to 1600 in Rodinal

 

[tsiklonaut]

It's hard to get a decent corn out of 6x7 I mostly use (don't even own a 35mm camera yet). Only pushed Ilford delta 3200 developed through crappy soups seems to do the proper trick on such film areas, but I'm not a big fan of this particular film for every-day use.

Since I do love the proper corn, I obtain it through a wet-printing darkroom workflow with me own developer+paper recipes. Some scans from various wet-prints:



The drummer by tsiklonaut, on Flickr










Reflections (Lith-print) by tsiklonaut, on Flickr










Iran Motorcyclist by tsiklonaut, on Flickr

 

[MCTuomey]

this is a beautiful thread ...

 

[Soeren]

Margus
This is simply not fair. You cant just post images with the grain and texture I wnat to achieve in some of my MF photography and not explain how you do it 🙁 😀
I like your images alot, both color and B&W

 

[shadowfox]

Margus
This is simply not fair. You cant just post images with the grain and texture I wnat to achieve in some of my MF photography and not explain how you do it 🙁 😀
I like your images alot, both color and B&W

Some of the prints that he posted up there are Lith prints.
One of the most unique but under-appreciated darkroom printing technique in my view.

 

[Soeren]

Ahh yes see that now. Hmm never considered that approach despite I have done som lithprinting before.
I did a serch yesterday and found some images done with Delta3200 giving skintones and grain structure reminding of HEI, not like HEI but still reminding.
Best regards

 

[Jamesruff]

Nikonos IV-a, Kodak Tri-X, Rodinal 1:100 semi stand @ 20C for 60mins.

the light meter in the NIkonos doesnt work, so i just set shutter to manual which is 1/90 i think and shot between f/8 and f/16.