Friday, July 29, 2022

Ancient Aspen - Ilford FP4 in HC-110 - plus development

I took this shot just a few weeks ago when I was exploring at Alexo.  There are some massive old aspen trees in the forest around the old mine site.  It rained while I was out there and as a result the bark of the tree is partly wet, and the light was very subdued.  I shot this on Ilford FP4 film, processed in HC-110 Developer, for a boost in contrast.  That really pumped things up nicely.  I used a longer focal length 300mm lens on my view camera to get some compression, but allowed the background to soften a little.  I think it worked out well.



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