The Rascal Photographer

Dead trees on Forgotten Lake, just outside Apex, a small lake off Jordan Lake, North Carolina.

With dusk setting in, I made a calculated exposure of around 2 minutes with and aperture of f45, ISO50.

The sky had very little detail, the water had minimal ripples created by a kayaker who was on the lake at the time, neither of which can be seen.

Despite having a lengthy exposure, I did calculate it incorrectly and underexposed by what I worked out to be somewhere around 3 stops. The resulting image was a very thin negative. Developed in Rodinol at 1:50 dilution for almost 4 minutes, the tonal range wasn't was I was hoping for.

After scanning the negative at 600d.p.i. and using photoshop, I did manage to bring the exposure to almost where I wanted from the original exposure.

Taking everything into consideration, I am happy with the outcome, although I will be returning to shoot it again.... .... correctly!

Dead trees on Forgotten Lake, just outside Apex, a small lake off Jordan Lake, North Carolina.

With dusk setting in, I made a calculated exposure of around 2 minutes with and aperture of f45, ISO50.

The sky had very little detail, the water had minimal ripples created by a kayaker who was on the lake at the time, neither of which can be seen.

Despite having a lengthy exposure, I did calculate it incorrectly and underexposed by what I worked out to be somewhere around 3 stops. The resulting image was a very thin negative. Developed in Rodinol at 1:50 dilution for almost 4 minutes, the tonal range wasn't was I was hoping for.

After scanning the negative at 600d.p.i. and using photoshop, I did manage to bring the exposure to almost where I wanted from the original exposure.

Taking everything into consideration, I am happy with the outcome, although I will be returning to shoot it again.... .... correctly!

I took my large format Korona camera using Fuji HR X-ray film to try out a new lens I have had sitting around for a while to see if I could get coverage on a 10x8 negative. This image was taken @ f64 with an 8 minute exposure, the film is rated at around 50 ISO. This was taken in Umstead Park,NC just before dusk. I was doing some research into potential coverage of a large format lens, the Rodenstock Grandagon 75mm f4.5 which apparently is designed for use up to 4x5. I had made a lens board for the lens in order to fit it to my Korona field camera and much to my surprise and delight, the image circle produced has plenty of coverage for my 10x8 negs. This image was the developed in Rodinal for 6 minutes and scanned to 1200 d.p.i. resulting in a TIFF file of over 692mb’s. I had previously considered selling this lens before this image. Now it’s going to be my go to lens for landscape photography with my 10x8 format...!!! This image on IG is a very small example of the scanned image. The real quality of the image cannot truly be appreciated here. I’ll be posting a higher resolution example later.