Category Archives: Films Found a wet graveyard behind St Alfege Church in Greenwich. Didn’t even know it was there until I stumbled across it by accident on Sunday looking for a shortcut to somewhere else. Anyway, I went back there yesterday with the Leica If. It was very dank and overcast but good for graveyards. Also empty… Some…  Yesterday we had more sun and I went out and replicated the test shoot I did at the Southbank the day before, only this time with Tri-X instead of Fomapan 400. Conditions were very similar, very bright and sunny but with sudden shadows created by fast moving clouds. And almost to the minute the rain…  I’m battling with Fomapan 400 and Rodinal development times at the moment. I know it is not recommended to use Rodinal with this emulsion. There is nothing on the Massive Dev Chart (and for good reasons, the consensus seems to be that the results are shite). But hey, it is my life and I have…  Surprisingly, after the wet wet wet weekend we have some sun. Enough to break out the ISO 100 Fomapan. I decided to use the Rodinal (Adox APH09) to see what kind of grain would result. I reduced the agitation to the first 10 seconds, followed by 3 gentle inversions per minute and I think I’m…  This the first post! I’ll be using this blog primarily to record my film development experiences. Seems easier than writing it all down on post-its and bits of paper that get lost. There will be many links back to snapsthoughts which is my image ‘dump’. However, snapsthoughts it is too general to discuss film tech/geekery,… |
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