Homeless Corner

Stair Pattern

Eye Patch

I've been standing on the corner of 2nd and 83rd photographing passersby, or high contrast scenes - experimenting again with the film. This fellow was unloading produce for a nearby Italian restaurant and agreed to let me photograph him and yes - the experiments are over.

This was with TMY @ 300 ASA; 5 minutes @ 75F with TMAX developer (1:4) Hopefully that will be my new "standard." It seems to work fine in bright sunlight/shadow and, so long as I expose for shadow areas - works well in flatter scenes. This is from a straight neg. scan without any adjustments. More to follow...

blogger spam

So since I started using the blogger comments, I'm beginning to get automated spam for the usual crap in the comments. I may have to turn on the "login" if you want to comment - or else go back to haloscan if this continues. So far I'm just getting one or two a day which I've been manually deleting.

I'll have to see if their are any other settings that can control this automated junk.

Development / Film

As I mentioned in previous post - I'm leaning towards TMY again. I shot with it a lot in the past - and somewhere along the line switched to HP5 in HC110B. Possibly my tastes have changed since then - but the TMY seems to be a bit smoother. Anyway - right now I'm using TMY @ 400 ASA - in TMAX developer 1:4 at recommended times. But I'm going to experiment with a bit of underdevelopment and making sure I'm still picking up shadow detail. I might take it down about 20%, i.e. the highlights in bright contrasty scenes are still a bit high for my taste. But after a couple of days of experimenting - I'm pretty close.