Miners Boots

This is a photograph from one of several visits I made into the Nordegg mine site last year.  I was on a tour and had permission to be on site.  

This is what's left of a pair of miners' boots, in one of the lockers at the wash house.  I shot this on a sheet of Ilford HP5.  The film was rated at 320 iso and given normal development in 510 Pyro.

I shot this on August 20th of 2024, at about 11:00 in the morning.  I used my Ebony view camera and a 125mm lens.

It was very dark in the building and the boot soles did not even register on my light meter.  The bench registered at EV 2 to 2-2/3.  The lockers barely registered at EV 2/3.  The exposure was quite long, despite the relatively fast film.  It was for 1 minute at F20.0.