Sunday, December 29, 2024

A Visit to Chipman

This is a scan of a recently processed 4" x 5" sheet of Ilford HP5+.  Just before Christmas, while nursing my sprained ankle, I retreated to the dark room and processed a batch of film.  In hindsight it wasn't such a great idea as it forced me to stand on me feet for about 90 minutes, making my ankle quite sore. In any event, I never claimed to be all that smart.
I shot this one way back on February 2nd of 2024, at about 8:40 in the evening.  Chris and Connie and I were visiting the Chipman Hotel for episode 10.0 of the Beer Parlour Project.  It had been a rather mild day, and a fair bit of snow melted.  By evening heavy fog rolled in and yielded this eerie mood.  I shot this with a really wide 75mm lens on my Ebony view camera.  It was difficult to focus in the dark but I made the best of it.  The short focal length helped and I stopped the lens down to F14 and hoped for the best.  The exposure was 16 seconds.
The town of Chipman should really give some thought to their dink-shaped Christmas decorations...!



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