Posts tagged ‘TMAX 400’
Visit to NYC
42nd Street Library Lion
Developed and Scanned first rolls from NYC visit, more to come. This is just a teaser. For those of you just dying to know, Tmax 400 developed in FG7, exposed at ISO 250, captured with the Bessa.
Unfocused
Leica M3 again
Maybe it’s the weather here in Pittsburgh (downright cold and rainy, very winter-like; February almost) or maybe it’s just my state of mind, but I feel very unfocused, photography-wise. This image sorta reflects that mood. I was fascinated with this guy who came to the park in Seattle where Ray and I went picture-taking, and I tried to capture him as he relaxed near the fountain and had a smoke. But, as a famous photographer once said “if your pictures are no good, get closer.” I think here I really wanted to get closer, but this was the best image I have of the gent.
Here in the ‘Burgh we kinda went from late summer right smack dab into winter, with hardly any fall at all. Peg and I were in Home Depot today, and people were dressed like it was January and they were buying up overing for their outdoor furniture and such.
Maybe it’s just the rapid nature of the changeover that has me flummoxed, maybe it’s that I haven’t experienced this kind of weather on a regular basis for three years. I dunno. The weather next week is supposed to be warmer, so maybe we’ll experience some real fall then.
Leica M3
As some of you may know, when I visited Ray he let me use his father’s M3. Excitedly I threw in a roll of TMAX 400 (well, I fumbled loading the vintage camera, but Ray helped) and I exposed a roll as we walked around a fairgrounds. Some highlights of the roll (from my perspective) are below. Some these are included so you can see the lens/film combo at work (this roll was contrasty as well as the roll from the Bessa/Zeiss combo, but in a different way). I really need to ask North Coast what their developer/time combo is for TMAX 400. Enjoy as you may. Thanks again, Ray.
Taking Pictures
It's quite a lovely view
Same roll as Ray @ work, played with a little bit in Lightroom to reduce the contrast a bit and direct the eye a little. The woman in the right foreground was particularly “hot.”
Ray @ Work
That Biogon has a little snap, eh?
That Zeiss lens on the Bessa again. Man, in bright daylight it hurts to look at these images; the contrast is almost too much!
New Roll Developed
A Park in Scottsdale, AZ, July 2008
One of the things I really like about film are the differences in the ‘look’ of one film to another. While there certainly are Lightroom presets that mimic film types, to my eye the differences go beyond the contrast curve and the response to color and the grain. I’ve collected Lightroom presets galore, but sometimes (like today) an image just pops out of the scanner and hits me upside the head.
This is TMAX 400. It was developed by the local lab. When I shot this last summer, I hadn’t yet mastered by development techniques (not that they are mastered yet) but I was especially nervous about TMAX. This roll came out so lovely that I am going to ask them what time/temp/developer combination they used.
This image isn’t anything award-winning, but the overall tonality just caught my eye. The Lightroom Preset conversions for TMAX just don’t do it justice. I’m going to have to get more of this film and experiment. I wouldn’t use it for the same things as HP5 (street photography), but more for landscapes, I think. I have a roll of TMAX 100 that I developed in FG7 that is waiting to be scanned. We’ll see how that came out.
