Margarit and Hailey and Helena went to Austria to visit family. They left on August 6th. Ryan and Braeden stayed behind and I'm hanging out with them. I've been spending a bunch of time in my darkroom, getting caught up on my backlog of film processing.
Recently I processed a batch of Ilford HP5+ in 4" x 5". When I shoot this stuff at close to its rated speed, I develop in 510 Pyro, 1:100, for 7:35 minutes. When I shoot it for the Beer Parlour Project I push the film to 1250 or sometimes even 1600 iso. This underexposure requires significant extra development. I use the same developer, 510 Pyro, but have to develop for 35:00 minutes. Needless to say it is rather tedious standing in the dark for over half an hour, agitating the film hangers once per minute. I usually do three batches at a time, but this would take almost 2 hours, and by the end the developer would be getting exhausted. Instead I usually do two batches of normally exposed film, then then a final batch of six or seven sheets from the Beer Parlour stuff. That's what I did this last time around.
This shot is from BP24.0, our outing last April to the Big Bubba's Bar and Grill in the Alix Hotel. This portrait is of servers Patti and Robin. They did a great job looking after us during our fantastic visit to the hotel. So far it is one of the oldest we have visited, and dates back to 1904. So that would have made it 121 years old at the time of our visit.
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