Posted by Condemna (Barcelona, Spain) on 10 May 2008 in Miscellaneous.
Faucet. Another experiment of 35mm developed in Diafine. Here the light conditions were pretty harsh, and I may have been shaking a bit too much the developing tank... Anyway, the picture came out too contrasty...
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I like contrasty! works well I think.
10 May 2008 2:09am
@Rhys: Thanks! Glad you like it. For my taste it came out a bit too contrasty... but that's perhaps because I remember the original scene, and the result in not exactly what I "visualized" when taking the picture.
...as i told you, my anything but systematic exposure methods don't allow me to do much 'sperimentin' in this area of contrast control by means of agitation. i'm sure though that the web has this kind of information somewhere, with hopefully real examples. that said, one of the common complaints about diafine is its results tend to be quite 'flat' in terms of contrast so i'm a bit puzzled here... what i'd be doing next is shooting some frames of the same subject under non changing light exposing film at different iso's and try to extract some rules from there about what works best for you. remember, your waytoocontrasty! is your neighbor's damnisthisflat! ;)
10 May 2008 2:48pm
@taffer: thanks for the master class! I remember shaking the tank a bit too much with this roll, and since I read that this may be the cause of loss of detail in dark zones, I attributed the strong blacks to this "manic shaking" of mine... I'll try to reshoot the subject and experiment with it the next time I go up to Camprodon.
i'm always coming back with just another little thing in a pure columbo-style, but just remember that agitation during the second phase (diafine B) is mainly directed to remove from the surface of the film the chemical remains of the development process itself and thus avoid the infamous bromide drags on our precious frames. that seems to be a particular problem of two-bath developers like diafine... so try to avoid stand (no-agitation) development anyway... and finally (yes i promise), just not that some films tend to naturally look 'better' in diafine than others. in my case i ended working mostly with 35mm fuji neopan 400 @640 and tri-x @800-1600 for available darkness.
12 May 2008 9:55am
@taffer: Hauré d'imprimir-me els comentaris i estudiar-los abans d'anar a dormir! Thanks again for the tips!
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