Happy Canada Day, everyone. In the absence of any actual photography (I have some digital stuff in the pipeline, but sadly, have not taken out the Rolleiflex in several weeks) here are some interesting links that may of interest to my readers (are you out there?) Two-Bath Development: Exposure and Development Strategy for Scanning by…
All posts by Jordan
As usual, this one started out in colour (Rolleiflex, Fuji 160C) and made its way to B&W.
Magnolia blossoms
From a very early morning walk around the neighbourhood with my little one-year-old. Taken with the Olympus Stylus Epic on Fuji Reala 100 film, scanned at the lab.
Dry Grass
Trying to make a pile of dry grass look appealing using the Rolleiflex 3.5E and Fuji 160C film (converted to B&W and toned). I dropped off a few rolls of film at Downtown Camera today — including my first real attempt at cross-processing (35mm Ektachrome 100GX) — keep your fingers crossed!
Rays of light
I developed a few rolls of B&W film last week — the first home B&W I’ve done in about six months. (Having a baby in the house will do that to you.) I mixed up fresh fixer and a new batch of Thornton’s metol two-bath developer, then proceeded to soup up two rolls of Neopan…
“Popping” images with Unsharp Masking
Over at The Online Photographer (a site that has lately become regular reading for me) a recent post by Ctein linked back to an excellent summary of the benefits of using low-level, high-radius Unsharp Masking as a way to get images to “pop”. This is a technique that I use on almost every scanned image…
Outside work
This miniature forest sits just outside my workplace, which is otherwise surrounded by a featureless suburban industrial park. This image came from the Nikon F90, 50mm lens, Fuji Reala (processed and scanned at the lab).
Dead vine branches
Shot on expired 35mm Fuji Reala, processed and scanned at the lab.
Re-emerging
The weather is warmer, the days are longer, and I’m venturing outside and shooting film again. This was taken in the Rolleiflex on slightly expired Fuji (either 160C or Reala, I’ll have to check) and played around with a bit in PS.
Venetian Bay
Back of an upscale shopping plaza in Naples, FL. Digital infrared with the Nikon D70s (“point-and-pray” with the lens set at 18mm) converted to B&W in PS. I actually have a roll of 35mm colour negative film in the camera and hope to have it finished and processed soon. It’s been a long time…