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Massive Film Development Chart – The Most Useless Thing On The Web

I had a reader ask me a question about film development. Specifically what my development times were for a particular film/developer combination. The reason he asked was he “liked” the way one of my images looked but he had issues with a development time/temp he got from “The Massive Development Chart”. Hmmmm…. well that depends on a lot of things. The most gigantic thing is YOU and YOUR process and how tight YOUR controls are and… To a much much lesser extent it has to do with water quality....

18 December 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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Shooting Film – Kodak Plus-X and Reader Curiosity

Way way way back I wrote a blurb that had a digital photograph of a medium format negative on a light table. You may remember it, I think it was called Photographers and Their tools or something like that. Anyway, after posting that I decided to ask a question over at APUG.com about not that specific negative but why Kodak Plus-X pan had a blue base. I still do not have an answer to that question but I did get some interesting info – depending on your process the...

07 December 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , | 14 Comments
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Shooting Film – Kodak Plus-X

Just a real quick post on my long overdue shooting film series, since I have been so big on shooting an M series film camera prior to taking the $9000 plunge for an M9 and meager Leica lens. Here is an old favorite of mine, always appropriate, renders skin tones well – a little too blue sensitive but hey that is what yellow filters were made for. Good ol’ Kodak Plus-X Pan. This example happens to have been developed in Kodak XTOL, a wunder-developer of the moment a decade...

24 September 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 2 Comments
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I Am An Image Pack-Rat – Why I Almost Never Get Rid of Images

When I was shooting film for everything I almost never got rid of any negatives. A combination of both irrational reasons as well as rational reasons combined to make me keep everything I shot. From a rational point of view if I was shooting roll film It was more trouble to cut individual negatives out of the strip rather than just filing the whole thing. For sheet film if there were technical faults or aesthetic faults I would make notes on what went wrong for educational purposes – mine...

24 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , | 11 Comments
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Shooting Film – Pyro Clarification And Notes

I have put a number of posts in the “shooting film” series. By a large margin the posts that have generated the most questions and correspondence have been the couple of films that I have posted so far that have been developed in pyro. If memory serves, I believe that the only two have been Ilford HP5 plus in PMK pyro and Kodak Plus-X also developed in PMK pyro. The Plus-X wasn’t even in the shooting film series – It was in the a random rant about “80% of...

18 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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80% of Everything You Read About Photography Is Complete Nonsense

Had some interesting philosophical discussions this weekend via email and real in person live Sykpe person to person stuff to. Anyway I felt compelled to share this a few thoughts with loyal readers. Philosophically the motivation for this site for me is education of people that love making photographs. I really get a big charge when I see the “light bulb turn on” for someone that was not “getting it”. I learned this a while back when I decided to hold a couple of workshops. I learned way before...

08 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments