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Uncharted Territory
Well, that’s a bit dramatic actually..
The other week I got some Fuji Neopan SS (100iso) as it was super cheap, and I’d never heard too much about it. Felt like trying something different. I decided to shoot a test roll this wee as I couldn’t really wait to use it on something special, i just wanted to see what it’d look like. I was half way through the roll when i noticed something wrong. My camera was set at 400 ISO =/
I initially got annoyed with myself, but then thought it’d be a good opportunity to try and push process the film a little (I’d never tried it before). So I shot the rest of the roll and started looking for some recommended development times. To my astonishment there were hardly any… Well, there were dev times for 100ISO, but nothing for 400.. I started looking at times for other developers but found hardly any info at all.. Thinks weren’t looking good.
After hours of searching I thought I’d just give it a go making an “educated guess”… Actually, it was more of a plain old “guess”.
Somehow, it worked. As you’d imagine I was pretty happy about it all. Actually, it produced some of the nicer results I’d got.
Here they are. Fuji Neopan SS developed in Rodinal at 1+50 @ 21C for 18 minutes, pushed to 400 ISO.
I don’t know what happened with this shot, but thought it looked kind of interesting anyway..
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Filters, Flares, and Ghosts
Just some shots from the other day. Tried some 400 ISO HP5 out this time, I don’t mind it at all. Developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 11 mins. The damn flare killed the second shot, should of expected it though. The shot with the flowers was taken with an old red filter I was testing out. Oh, and check out my ghost photo at the bottom :p
OMG A GHOST! :p
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Red Filter test
I found an old red filter in one of my camera bags today and thought I’d try it out with the remaining film in the camera. For a while now I’ve been wondering what differences it can make to black and white photography, I’ve read about what it does and why it was popular before the days of photoshop, but I figured I’d just make my own test and shoot two identical shots to see the difference with and without the filter (I was looking for ways to finish the roll off, haha)
I have to say I was quite surprised by the boost in contrast it gives. I never imagined it’d be that much.
The example shots below probably didn’t have the best subject matter or setting to see the full advantage of a red filter but I took some photos afterwards that really benefited from it (will post them later). I tried to stitch them together in the pic below. It looks more drastic when I export this jpeg from photoshop than the individual scans suggest. There should be a little more detail in the bottom right shadow even though that area is very dark in the red filter example below.
I don’t think this will be the last tie I use this filter.
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Tokyo Print
Last year I won a photo comp on an Australian Photography forum. The prize was an A1 sized print of one of my photos. It took me ages to send in the photo I wanted printed out (mainly because my hard drive died. Plus the fact that I was quite lazy over the Christmas break).
I finally got around to sending the printer a pic last week and received the finished product in the mail yesterday. I was really happy with the result. The printing was terrific so that was never an issue, i was just concerned about the post processing work I’d done to the photo. It was bit of a gamble, but turned out looking really good in the “flesh”.
I’ve made prints of my photos before, but never at A1 size. It’s pretty impressive.
I took a quick picture of it below. I haven’t mounted it yet on the wall, so will hopefully sort that out today. Oh, and the print doesn’t look all flat like it does in the photo below.
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Canonet 19
Ok, I’ve been cutting back on my camera collecting, but this little gem was going very cheap so I had to buy it. I mean, for less than $20 you cant really go wrong.
Its a Canonet 19 from the mid to early 60’s. Sort of a beefed version of an Olympus trip bit with a faster 45mm f/1.9 lens and manual control. Oh and a funky bottom film advance lever too. I wasn’t too confident on the condition as it was really cheap (they’re not worth a great amount anyway), but I was pleasantly surprised when I received it today. Aperture and shutter are all working, and even auto mode seems to be going good which means the light meter is ok. Cosmetically its in top condition too. It also came with its original eveready case and yellow filter which look great. But what is even cooler is its original box. I think it looks great with the fancy “Canonet” typeface, and canon logo with colour design etc.
I have a little time off soon, so will put a roll through it and see the results. It looks as though someone changed the light seals not too long ago, so I’m quietly confident that it’ll work.
Here’s a shot of it below. I didn’t take it in my light box as I couldn’t be bothered setting it up. I just put it in front of a window on white cardboard and put some white paper behind it. You obviously cant get the same lighting control you would with a proper light box, but this is a decent quick/temporary solution.
