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Recently posted picture now revisited after darkroom. Eventhough the flash speed was wrong I like this one. Its like this black wall is eating Vika or something.

Nando service + other misc stuff

Nikonf F50 + Tamron AF 19-35mm / Nikkor 1.8 50mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

Ramos Mejia & Palermo zoo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rosedal, BsAs

Holga + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200

El rosedal de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Great thing about BW film is that it can take amazing amounts of under & over exposure.
Like in this picture here, scenery was a delight for human eye but light conditions were terrible. Subject is in the shadows whilst the background is bathing in hard midday sun. This combined with Holga which has only 2 shutter speeds (bulb & about 1/250) would probably end up in a catastrophy without the flexibility of modern films. If relying on automatics of my film scanner the end result would be something shown on the 2 small examples, dark or washed-up.
Someone has said that all the needed information is in the negative, you just have to know how to dig it out. One could probably do this digging easier with photoshop but you wont find info about that here. Instead this is how i did it.

First of all I like to develop my films with stand developing. That means long developing time with weak dilution. This way negative comes out smooth, low contrast and with as much of information stored as possible, making it easy to manipulate in darkroom.
Recipe for stand developing i prefer is Rodinal 1 + water 200 (20°C) for about 2 hours. I've done the same with Tmax -dev, then its Tmax 1 + 32 water, but this picture here is with Rodinal.

1. Base exposure, 10 seconds with filter no. 5 to bring out the details of the under exposed main subject (Vika) and the pole Vika is leaning to.
2. 6 seconds with filter no. 3 whilts masking the main subject all the time. This brings out the leafs and the masking prevents the main subject from becoming too dark.
3. Base exposure, 2 seconds with filter no. 3. This adds to the leafs and also gives Vika's skin and the pole some tone.
4. Burning through a hole with filter no. 00 for about 2 mins. Brings out the water and palm trees.
5. Same as phase 4 but about 30 seconds burning around this area.

Masking in this picture might be bit rough but after all its Holga art so if its somewhere near its good enough.

Glass coaster self-portrait

This test stripe of a self-portrait has served as a glass coaster for the past 4? months. Never liked it so it was never finished. Tonight im wondering why.

Between the lines

Nikon F50 + Nikkor 35-135mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Misc. Buildings

Holga + Kodak Portra 160vc

La Boca & Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Not so happy zoo picture

Nikonf F50 + Nikkor 1.8 50mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

Palermo Zoo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Happy happy zoo pictures

Nikonf F50 + Tamron AF 19-35mm / Nikkor 1.8 50mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

Palermo Zoo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sisters 2

Nikon F50 + Nikkor 1.8 50mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Opposites

Nikonf F50 + Tamron AF 19-35mm / Nikkor 1.8 50mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Pink Moon

Maby photographs tomorrow.

Tigre family portrait

Moskva 2 + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200

Tigre, San Isidro, Argentina

Im not constipated, just squeesing the shit out of the cable release.

Sisters

Holga + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Villa Gesell

Moskva 2 + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200

Villa Gesell, Argentina

Anastasia

Holga + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200

Villa Gesell, Argentina

At the beach of Villa Gesel. Think it will be nice to introduce these ones to Durst.

Fabrica de pantalones

Nikon F50 + Tamron AF 19-35mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentia

Avenida de Mayo

Holga + Kodak Portra 160vc

Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Back home, got 10 rolls of 35mm (360 frames) and 10 rolls of 120 mm to develop. So you can guess the subject of next updates.

Greetings from BsAs

Holga + Kodak Portra 160vc

Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Update from the trip. "Scanned" these negatives with a digicam against a window.

Tamron testing

Nikon F50 + Tamron AF 19-35mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

Testing my new Tamron wide angle which i bought for a trip to Argentina im leaving on now.
Wanted to take my beloved Kiev60 -system with me but after some serious poundering realized that it is just too big and heavy for the trip.

Instead my bag is filled with the following:
- Nikon F50 + Nikkor 35-135mm + Tamron AF 19-35mm (plus all the lenses Vika is taking with her)
- Holga
- Moskva 2

So no updates for couple of weeks.

Burned Döners

Nikon F50 + Nikkor 35-135mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

RTFM! aka wrong flash sync speed

Nikon F50 + Nikkor 35-135mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200

For some reason i presumed that the max flash sync speed of my F50 is 1/250. Well its not. It's 1/125 and here is what happens when you dont read the fakin manual! The first picture shown here is somewhat useful after alternative cropping.

Holga mushroom

Holga + Kodak Portra 800