Posts tagged ‘Pan F’
Hazy Summertime
Pan-F, HC-1120 (H)
Scanning away here and came across a roll I shot with my Mamiya around July or so. It might have been in August, I honestly can’t rermember. I’ll post a few images from that roll in the next day or so. That day was hot and hazy, humid in that Western-PA sort of way. This is the point at which the Beaver River flows into the Ohio. The railroad bridge crosses over the point.
I worked on the image to try and capture that feeling, but seeing it on the web page leaves me feeling I missed it somehow.
More to come.
Weston Rocks
Pan-F, Rodinal
Another image from the Weston Beach rolls. Auditioning yet another theme. Obviously the images in older posts are squished a bit (well, more than a bit).
Auditioning this theme today. If I went with this, I’d increase the image size; that’s the one thing I really liked about yesterday’s theme. BIG photos.
MYC.
Standing on Weston Beach
Rodinal, Pan-F
Last January I got my second chance to wander Weston Beach at Point Lobos, California. Although I’m not an expert on Weston’s history, I assume this beach was named after him based on some kind of info that he had spent a great deal of time on the beach, probably photographing the area.
This was shot #1 on roll #1 of two rolls I had never scanned. Both rolls I discovered as I was going through my backlog, which now consists of *only* 14 rolls of 35mm and 1 roll of medium format film.
Yikes. And I developed two rolls of Adox today, so that makes 16 rolls of 35mm to be scanned.
Good thing I’m on vacation.
Merry Christmas to all!
Found Image
Pan F, EOS 3, 17-40 Zoom, Xtol
One of the things I enjoy about shooting film are the surprises. Since I can’t chimp, all I can do is see an image, try and capture the image, hope I got something interesting, and then move on. It’s only when I look at the negs (or, sometimes, after I scan an image in) that I get a sense of what I came away with. And since there is usually a delay of hours, days or weeks until I see it, there is always possibilities of surprise.
That’s what happened above. I was walking back from my first session at the Disney, both the 5D and EOS 3 hanging off my neck, and I saw this pattern on the street. I raised the EOS 3 up, captured a couple frames, and moved on.
As I was scanning the remainder of the roll last night, I came across this image. Just quite liked the mood and the play of shadows and reflections on the right-hand wall, is all. But until I scanned it, I had quite forgotten all about the frame. I’m glad this was Pan F, as I might think about blowing this up a bit.
Ilford’s Pan F
EOS 3, 17-40 L, Pan F, Xtol 1:1
I continue to scan in the roll of Pan F I captured at the Disney Concert Hall. Every frame is a surprise as the qualities of the film and developer combo deliver beyond my expectations. It’s an odd combo is that it seems both soft and crisp at the same time; soft in the way it captured the subtleties of the tones and reflections of the wall; crisp in its grain structure and sharpness. The way the curves on the curved wall in the center of the frame above are very pleasing to me, as are the range of tones in the details frame left.
And the dynamic range really shocks me. In the frame below, understand that the late-afternoon sun is coming from off-frame left; you can see the shadow from an off-camera part of the building on the vertical wall. The overhang at the bottom of the frame is in the shadow on the shadow side of the building. I didn’t really calculate the stops of range on site (I should have, I know) but there is clearly detail on the vertical wall as well as detail in the shadow overhang. One of the real technical challenges of the building is the dynamic range of the reflections. While you can certainly use the explosive highlights artistically, you always have to be aware of them as you shoot.
I kept copious notes when I shot the 120 rolls of Pan F (developed last night and looking good on the light table), but I didn’t take notes when I wielded the 35mm cameras the day before (this is from that first walk-around). I still have a roll of HP5 to develop and then I think I’ll have access to all the images I captured while on site at the Disney. I’m thinking of doing a Blurb book or something of the best ones.
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The school year approaches and I’ve made arrangements to use the medium-format scanners in the university’s darkroom/photo lab. There they have a Nikon 9000, an Epson 750, and a Imacon high-res scanner. Along with gaining the ability to scan my medium format negs, I plan to do some testing where I take a 35mm neg, such as the one above and scan it on the Imacon and compare with the Nikon 4000 scan above. Just to see what I’m missing, as it were.
Lastly, I recently received some prints back from Aspen Creek. One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to begin making prints of my work, and so I sent out a dozen images to get back 8×10 ‘proofs.’ That was a very enlightening experience, but it deserves a post of its own.
Pan F visits Disney Concert Hall
Pan F, Xtol 1:1
I shot both film and digital while I visited the Disney Concert Hall. On the film side, I used Pan F (both 35mm and medium format), Delta 100, and my trusty old ally, FP4. Most rolls have yet to be developed. This image is from the first six frames from the first roll of Pan F. All of those so far have a lovely tonality. Very sharp, and very little grain. Early in the fall I think I’m going to re-visit the film and digital issue with Pan-F developed in Xtol, using the same lens on both sides. That will be interesting, I think
