Show us yer film shots then!

FujiLove said:
Which developer do you normally use for the 100? I read somewhere that HC110 works well, and it's what I normally use, so seems a good choice for me. I think I need to settle down and stop jumping around with different B&W films so much. Find a couple I really like and learn how to use them better. Veering towards the Deltas at the moment.
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joxby said:
As with everything it depends what you want.

I don't want grain, but most of my film is 120, its not that easy to end up with obvious grain in delta 100 120 unless you cock up development.

With that in mind this is what I've settled on -

35mm I try to do in xtol no matter what, 120 will do in xtol if I have 5+ rolls to soup, if its just the odd 1 or 2, I do 1-100 rodinal for an hour.
I'd do everything in xtol but it has to be mixed, it doesn't keep that well and it just isn't as convenient for a few rolls as rodinal.
I would imagine HC110 would be pretty good on 100, 35 or 120, but it may produce some grain on 400, especially 35mm, I dunno I've only used it a couple of times and that was 120.
But it is a convenient one shot, waiting till you've got a pile of film to soup so you can mix up 5L of xtol is a pain sometimes.


I think rodinal is a developer you can get to know well if you don't mind a little grain sometimes, the variation on its use like dilute stand development adds a dimension that isn't available with some other developers, and it keeps so well..:)
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Rodinal (or Adanol) is my go to developer now. I used to use Ilfosol 3 but I found it went off too quick for me to use it quick enough. I then switched to D76 but ended up with litres and litres of it in bottles which just took up space and confused me when forgot to label them and wondered what they were a month later. Now I use Rodinal all the time. a 120 roll in my tank uses 590ml, so I just stick 12ml of Rodinal into the jar and top it up to 600 with water, stick it in the tank and Bobs yer uncle. I don't shoot 400 speed films much though, so I don't really know what I'd use if I started shooting more of that as I don't generally like grain that much (unless its a gritty street shot, but that's not something I shoot). Plus Rodinal is like £13 for 500ml which will do about 40 odd rolls of 120 :)
 
Jao said:
Carl, these are really lovely. You have achieved a beautiful range of tones and the composition of all is excellent. Great work all round.
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I agree, especially the first interior shot!
 
A few recent photos taken on Kodak Tmax 400 in the 50p Olympus XA2, developed with LC29:

The Empire strikes back

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The time traveller

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Tuned in

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The 50p Camera Project on Flickr
 
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I like that very much Asha,great colour results with Ektar. Where did you take the photograph?
 
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I like that very much Asha,great colour results with Ektar. Where did you take the photograph?
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Was taken last month when visiting a friend in St Raphael ....... about 70km West along the coast from Nice.

It's actually the same town as the "Pier" shot that i posted on here a little while ago.
 
Nikon F3 Nikkor 55mm micro 200Asa slide

 
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Stairway to .......................................Heaven :D

I seem to recall a set of steps like that back in March ......................... BlueBell Hill ??
 
Asha said:
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Stairway to .......................................Heaven :D

I seem to recall a set of steps like that back in March ......................... BlueBell Hill ??
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Riverside country park.:)
 
A few from Scotland, Isle of Arran on a Rolleiflex Automat.

Portra 400, North Sannox Glen. I wanted to give the feeling of the power of the water without any of the milkiness of a slow shutter speed.
River-Sannox4-P400 by Andy, on Flickr

Portra 400. Pirnmill Beach, 100 yards from our cottage.
Pirnmill-Beach-P400 by Andy, on Flickr

Ektar 100. Pirnmill beach at sunset
Sunset-3-E100 by Andy, on Flickr

Cheers

Andy
 
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Nice set there @Andysnap ....... I wouldn't ay I have a favourite as they all deserve equal merit, however the perspective of the second shot really does appeal to me.

As for the first one, it looks to me that you've captured the force of the water just fine! (y)
 
I also like the way you've captured the water, Andy, loving that sunset too.

In other news, I think I need to get a new screen because everyone seems to be posting larger-sized pics now and I have to scroll to see the whole picture. That's a terrible excuse for splurging on a screen but it's the only excuse I've got and I'm sticking with it ;)
 
Andysnap said:
Portra 400, North Sannox Glen. I wanted to give the feeling of the power of the water without any of the milkiness of a slow shutter speed.
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And you've succeeded! Milkiness is a cliché and I don't know how it ever caught on. As often used, especially now in the digital age (shhh...), it's more of a case of 'look what I can do with my equipment' than what expresses a sense of the physical world.

And if it's thought to be automatically creative - well the phrase 'painting by numbers' comes to mind.
 
Not at the level of most photos here, but one of the few "good" ones from my last roll. I tend to forget that 400ASA is too much for broad daylight, so many didn't come very good :p

Konica Big Mini with Fujifilm NPH 400:


Lamp by Joao Norim, no Flickr

I'll post another from this roll later.
 
Just realised I never posted the colour version of a previous POTY entry from earlier in the year. The leaves around the window were blowing about all over the place so I really struggled to balance the aperture and shutter speed between having a deep enough DoF and freezing the leaves

Arca Swiss 4x5 monorail with 150mm Rodenstock on Fuji Pro 160NS


Abandoned by Carl Hall, on Flickr
 
I like it Carl, although i would have been tempted to try a longer exposure version as well.
 
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