Faces of Chicago

All critiques are welcome.

Hey I like this high contrast style..Could you please elaborate on how you're developing the film?

Hi Kasturi, this film was developed in very traditional manner, no surprises here: TriX 400 rated at 1600 and pushed 2 stops in HC110 dil B. Temperature was maintained at 68F (roughly). Printed 8x10 with 40Magenta on variable contrast paper. Rest is just the lens :-)) Frankly speaking this print scan is pretty bad.

 

I actually wanted to ask you how on earth do you get that level of grain in your pictures?

good angle..congrats.

Hi, sorry I missed that one! The way I get grains is by playing around with the frequency and vigour of agitation during developing. Also in some of my photos here, the grain is due to higher ASA film, I don't know which one you are talking about. But I would recommend experimenting with the agitation frequency to standardize for yourself.

Some of your shots at 400 appeared to have distinctly larger grain than what I normally get, so was wondering how you get them. Nowadays I'm trying out Diafine and some other film combinations, e.g., the one below is Neopan 400 in Diafine. I like some of the results quite a bit... no need to control agitation and temperature if the exposures have been spot on :-)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/479994450_52f1fac8c6_o.jpg

Really like this set of photos of yours!

 

I have been loyal to HC-110 so far. I almost always use dilution B/H and simply agitate more vigorously when I like to have larger grains. Used it with Tri-X TMAX and HP5. Works for me.