Seascape on Film – Orkney Islands, Scotland – September 2018

November 13, 2018

Abandoned Stone Building

This image of an old stone structure was taken on the Island of Burray one of Scotland’s Orkney Island (they lay just off the northern coast). The image was taken with a 20mm wide angle lens on Kodak Tri-X Black & White film using an EI 400 and developed in a Rodinal 1+50 for 13 minutes. After development it was scanned  with a Microtek scanner at 3300 dpi and adjusted in Lightroom.

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Gull on a Piling; On Film

September 24, 2016

Gull on a Piling

Looking out over the bay there were hundreds of pilings. I don’t know if they were being used but it created an interesting abstract.

The film was developed normally then scanned into Lightroom where some adjustments were made.

This image was shot on a high speed film and developed in HC-110 for 7.4 minutes. Development times are relative short, when I have a large number of rolls of film to develop the short development time comes in handy. HC-110 works as a silver solvent in higher concentrations but when diluted enough the silver solvent activity is nil (when the concentration is high the solvent action reduces sharpness and acuity). I often push ISO 400 film to an EI of 1600 or even EI 3200 with good results. Also HC-110 is contrasty (HC stands for high contrast) which helps for flat lite scenes or when using lower contrast films.. I use dilution H (1+63) because there is no solvent action. The catch is for each roll of 35mm film you develop there must use at least 6 ml of the concentrate, that works out to 384 ml of working solution for each roll of 35mm film (or 120 film). If less than 6 ml is used there is not enough chemical to fully develop the film.

Check out my other blog onefotoperday.wordpress.com It is mostly digital photography and lighting setups.

You can contact me with any questions you may have.

I’ve been asked if my images are for sale, most are, please ask.

Seeking gallery representation.

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Pinhole Nude 7/14/2015

July 14, 2015…….

 

Nude, Taken with a Pinhole Camera

This image was shot with my homemade pinhole camera. It poses a number of problems inherent with the concept of a pinhole camera but that’s what makes it interesting.

This image was shot with Kodak Tri-X 400, 120 film . The film was developed in Rodinal for 20 minutes at a dilution of 1+100.

I also posted this image on my other blog ( onefotoperday.wordpress.com ) which I usually post digital work but I felt it falls into one of the themes I like to explore, isolation.

One light was used, one was placed to the right of the frame and in front of and above the model.

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Do not copy or use any of the images or text here or herein without written consent. Do not remove the copyright notice from any of my images. © Copyright 2013 Stan Katz, All Rights Reserved.