Time to move again! from Publii I have nothing against Publii, the reason to move has more to do with the workflow, i felt very restricted being forced to work in a desktop app. to Hugo Hugo is a fast framework to build static sites, it’s been around forever and seems stable. Let’s see how we get along.
Tried my hand at shooting with Red Filter, that is Ilfords HP5 plus in Lomography Lomo MC-A shot at ISO 1600 with a Tamron Red Filter. I set the camera to overexpose by two stops ( I know that counters the ISO setting but that is how I choose to do it 🤓). The exposures came out a bit over exposed so next time I’ll try ISO 1600 and overexpose just one stop. ...
Another roll of Ilford HP5 Plus pushed to ISO 1600 in my Lomography Lomo MC-A developed with Adox Rodinal at 1/25 concentration for 12 minutes.
Did my first try of pushing film, pushing Ilford HP5 plus to ISO 1600 - from box-speed of 400. Hoping for some of those punchy results I see online and maybe a bit better handling of the Swedish dark winter lighting. I developed the film in Adox Rodinal 1/25 for 12 minutes. I usually use 1/50 concentration for iso400 but I wanted the results quickly so I went for 1/25! 😀 The results are quite good, maybe I’ll try to add a minute next time to get it even crunchier. ...
Darktable can be quite confusing but it is open source and free so I’ll stick with it! Here’s my process for converting scanned 35mm black and white negatives using negadoctor - this is very bare bones and not extensively tested, but it is something. What you need: A photo of your light source without any negative in front A photo with a chunk of unexposed negative A photo or part of photo that is exposed ...
I scan all my negatives myself using my digital camera. The cheap LED I started out using a small led light, JJC FDA-LED1, to back-light my negatives and take photos using my Canon EOS R50 with a RF 85mm f/2 Macro IS STM. The LED-light thing was doing it’s job but I have replaced it. I want something a bit easier to work with and I want to be able to “scan” overlapping frames, panoramas and also get the sprocket-holes – all of which is not possible with the holder included in the JCC light. I have settled for Lomography DigitaLIZA+ hoping that will do well if I venture out trying 120 and 110 film on day. ...
This roll is scanned brighter than my previous rolls (6 of 10 brightness on the JCC led). This time I used a lot of the auto-features in darktable/negadoctor on the first frame and then used that preset on all of the negatives. ...
After just a few posts it’s clear to me that wordpress is way more than i need. I’ll try out Publii and hope that is more in line with my needs! Publii sites I’ve visited seems A LOT faster than even my barebones wordpress, the application it self is sleek and easy - and runs great on my NixOs laptop. It takes away my current ability to edit online - but I do not really do that anyway. Wordpress eco-system is very confusing to me and I don’t feel that I can figure out which plugins I need and which are safe to use. To top that off, every wordpress plugin comes with 500 000 things I don’t want and a constant nagging to “buy pro”. I hope that this will not be true for Publii in the future. ...
I use Darktable for all my RAW-editing, it, as well as photography as a whole, is a new thing – thus I’m not very good, but learning. The roll here is a Kodak Tri-X 400 shot with the Lomo MC-A. The images in the first gallery are edited the way I thought it was supposed to be done. The photos in the secound gallery are edited with different settings from the first – a new preset I made for negadoctor. I have no idea why the cat picture is not as blue as the others. ...
Got bitten by the film-bug and went and bought myself a camera. Lomography has recently released a new film camera for 35mm that looks like (and acts like) a point & shot – but it comes with a lot of settings not normally found on such. The Lomo MC-A is very expensive – but its also a newly developed and released film camera, that is worth supporting and hopefully not something I’ll regret. (= ...