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My goal is to time mixing up chemicals sufficient to process all the film I’ve exposed and have little chemicals left over. Color negative film has a brownish-orange mask on the film so my strip looked pretty dark when I finished. Here’s an example: For comparison, below is a similar image using TMax (B&W negative) film, shot around the same hour of the same day, processed the same as the image above. I’m using Xtol developer at full strength followed by the usual stop bath, fixer, hypo and flow agent, processing at 65F both because that’s the temperature of the basement where the chemicals are held and I feel the longer development time maximizes the resolution.

For September my website is all about architecture. You can see the images here: Search for key words in my posts © 2009-2016 Mel Mann

Finally I realized it’s a good place to work on personal projects, to put up some images and play around with the theme to see how bringing a subject out might work. For a few months I’ll be putting up a series of images on my website that are part of a single subject. There won’t be an attempt to tell a story or develop a portfolio. I’m hoping the exercise of selection will help me improve my skill at defining a portfolio or a story.

Seeing what's around me in the big world Saturday was wonderful infrared weather. Like the way texture varies and shades of grey build structure in the image. Search for key words in my posts © 2009-2016 Mel Mann. All content on this site is copyrighted and may not be used without permission of Mel Mann Cancel Post was not sent - check your email addresses!