Show us yer film shots then!

[Barney]

Back in the fifties we got even greater actuance and compensation using Adox R14 or R17 single coated film with tetenal neofin blue. (The modern version of this has been reformulated and gives as slight film speed enhancement)But like the original has a shelf life, once mixed in minutes rather than days or years like pyro.

I was able to shoot and print 3 meter square, enlargements, from that combination, for store window backgrounds, from Rollei negatives,, that looked little different, from the pavement, to those I took on a 5x7 monorail

A compensating developer in this situation closes the gap between the shadows and extreme highlight. The shadows continue to develop long after the developer is exhausted in the highlights. This only works with dilute but active developers of the beutler type. The same mechanism accounts for the strong actuance in the edges.

Morning Terry,
I have seen Tetanal Neofin Blue mentioned in a couple of developing books but had thought, probably incorrectly, that it was for use with old fashioned thick emulsions but your comments have made me re think that, I might mix a batch up have a look. Similar with the beutler type. I like that certain developers add their own individual character to a film and have been fairly impressed with "the look of Pyro", it adds something. A 3m print from a 2 1/4 negative is impressive so something must be going right with that combination.
After my outing the other night I have, for the first time observed the difference between 35mm and large Format images and it makes me never want to shoot 35mm ever again !
If only a similar selection of films were available for large format.
Thanks for your comments.

 

[Barney]

I have been visiting Rivi since I was a boy, at age seven or eight a couple of us used to go up there on Sundays getting the 10 past eight 512 to Horwich. As we got a bit older and stronger we traveled the 13 or so miles on our bikes to play in the pools and find birds nests at the "Chinese Gardens" (Do kids still do things like that ?)

Getting older I explored more particularly the areas either side of St Georges Lane Up and around the back of the quarry but generally steered towards Two Lads and The Pike. A couple of weeks ago I spotted a small hidden single track road up the side of the quarry which we had not used before and that unexpectedly dropped over onto the road at Smithills, I had a couple of photography explorations there and saw a farm track shooting off so explored it. I was surprised to find a couple of rough parking bays over the side of the road and was greeted by some of the most beautiful views over a small valley I had seen up there in that area. Of course we are used to the fires on the moor's over the years and generally a couple of years later the scars heal. Here however, the fires had gotten at the trees and the wounds remained visible, shaded woodland exposed to the light for the first time in years, an image of the landscape in development.

Dynax 7 with 28 -135
APX 100 @box speed developed in 510 pyro

I liked the contrast of barriers bathed in light. and yet being an opening built there.