It was an overcast Xmas Eve…
Very flat light and I wanted to play with Tri-X and Rodinal (R09 APH09). Tooling around St James Park pretending to be a tourist. Tis quite hard really because we got asked the way to Trafalgar Square – or more bizarrely ‘is Trafalgar Square part of Greenwich?’ from an American, which totally threw me, having just come up from Greenwich… duh, we must exude localness. Oh, and I took a group photo of an Asian family outside Buckingham Palace. Nice people, wished me a merry xmas which was sweet, even if I believe in it less than they do (and I’m making an assumption).
I stand developed the negs in the Rodinal (1+80) for 1hr, 30 secs initial agitation, 10 secs more at 30 mins. Nice and lazy does it. I also fixed for 8 minutes rather than the recommended 4 after seeing Tri-X needed more fixing on the forums. Interestingly, the Rodinal came out deep mauve/brown, presumably from the base dye.
The grain and shadow details are acceptable to me…
Christmas jogger:
Statuary:
Hubcap self portrait (Pall Mall):
Outside the National Gallery:
No benches…
by skinnyvoice
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