The weather over the holidays has been less than ideal. I was hoping to be able to get outdoors and enjoy the winter weather. We have certainly experienced winter weather, but is has been less than enjoyable. Mostly it has been cold, with quite a bit of snow. I have been forced to retreat to my darkroom, where I have spent the last few days processing my backlog of color film. After my experience with the outdated Kodak E-6 chemistry, I mixed up a fresh batch and tried again. I think it went a little better... Though between my issues with being color blind, and the outdated film that I tend to shoot, the funky filtration that I tend to use, my lack of experience and tendancy to go overboard with Photoshop, and the fact that this batch of chemistry was newer, but still a little out of date... the results are still open to interpretation. Here is the latest batch of color transparencies, all shot on 4" x 5" large format film. Some of these date back to early 2012, while other are from the recent Utah trip...
Anna at Red Rock Coulee, 2013
Old Grain Auger, 2012
Bankhead Aspens, 2012
Beauty Creek, 2012
Box Canyon, Kodachrome Basin, Utah, 2013
Bryce Canyon, Utah, 2013
Rear Window, Buick, 2012
Capstones, Southern Alberta, 2012
Classic Stumps, Second Vermilion Lake, Banff, 2012
Elk Island Pond, 2012
Dead Cottonwood, TL Bar Ranch, 2012
Gnarly Tree, Kodachrome Basin, Utah, 2013
Group of Seven, 2012
Winter Jackets, 2012
Kananaskis Rapids, 2012
Lodgepole Burn, 2012
One Plus Four - 2013
Greasewood and Rills, 2012
Ram Falls, 2012
Three Boulders, Red Rock Coulee, 2013
Shattered Boulder, Red Rock Coulee, 2013
Chunks, Red Rock Coulee, 2013
Riverbend, South Saskatchewan Badlands, 2012
Slot Canyon, Utah, 2013
Stanley Falls, Jasper, 2012
Stone House Ruin, 2013
Totem Peak, 2012
Hoodoos above The Wave, Arizona, 2013
Pools at The Wave, Arizona, 2013
The White Pocket, Arizona, 2013
The White Pocket, Arizona, 2013
The White Pocket, Arizona, 2013
Wildflowers, TL Bar Ranch, 2012
Winter Skeletons, southern Alberta, 2013
Wire Pass Exit, Utah, 2013
Aspen Trunks, Elk Island National Park, 2013
I have shared many of these images in previous posts, as Black and White's. I think that they look very different in color. Sometimes the tonality, form and contrast of the monochrome image make for a stronger composition. At other time the color is the image, and it just doesn't work in black and white. For this reason I have always carried some color film with me when I am out hiking. I also have a couple of large 8"x10" transparencies that I just processed, as well as some smaller roll film negatives. Yesterday I also processed a large batch of C-41 color negative film. Over the coming weeks I will get around to scanning all of this stuff and posting some of the better images for comment. Now that this processing is out of the way I can clean up my darkroom, pack up my Jobo processor, and move on to processing and printing some of my other negatives. As long as the weather stays as cold as it has, there should be ample opportunity to get back to the darkroom. If it does every warm up I will take a break and head out to do a little winter photography.
