Just some nice dappled morning light

This week I scanned in some negs I had developed in February. Film is Neopan 400, developed in Rodinal. The entire roll had a very nice texture to it, and these three images were my favorites.

These images were captured some time in the fall, so the overall delay from capture to scan was about six months. I develop film when I can, and I pretty much shoot more often than I develop and develop more often than I scan, so I always have a backlog of film to show to you guys. Just the other day I developed a couple rolls of Delta 3200 I shot back in Phoenix, and I’ve been back in Pittsburgh almost a year now.

Toned in Photoshop

The neopan had quite a lovely quality to it, especially these low contrast images. Really lovely to my eye.

Have a good weekend, everyone.

Various dog toys and a cat perch captured on Neopan 400

As I continue to experiment with films & developers, this one I like quite a bit. It’s Neopan 400 souped in Rodinal. For a 400 ISO film, there really isn’t much grain and the tones are quite nice. The pillow and bone belong to our lab, the perch belongs jointly to our two cats, and the sneaker is mine (but obviously the lab needed to borrow it for a time. Image captured in September 2009.

I think that HP5 in Rodinal is too harsh, but Neopan 400 is lovely. I know this experimenting seems like marking time, but it’s fun for me. Back in the day, I only shot FP4 and developed in FG7. I still like that combo, but I never got the experimenting out of my system back them.