Two more.

Loaded inside daylight changing bag. Pre-wet film. During the pre-soak, mixed 5mL Rodinal in ~400mL distilled water. Poured developer in and topped off with distilled water. Agitated 40x over the first minute, then ten inversions at 30:00. Initial agitations are half-agitations, gently (i.e., gently twisting to a 90-degree inversion, then gently back).

After one hour, disposed of developer, rinsed in 70 degree tap water. Fixed in Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+4 for 6 minutes (that’s now 47 rolls from this batch of fixer, 22 since replenishment), inverting 10x over 15 seconds at the top of every minute. Reclaimed fixer and rinsed for ten minutes in tap water, then emptied tank, added a few drops of Photo-Flo, filled tank with tap water and agitated 20x, and hung negatives vertically to dry.

Evaluation and notes

Roll 1343

Really pleased how this roll came out. There are the standard caveats: concerts are hard to shoot, they get harder when shooting film, wish I had more freedom of movement, etc. etc. etc., but all in all, I’m really pleased by how this roll turned out.

As always, Fomapan looks good in Rodinal. It’s clean and crisp, and only minimal postprocessing (on the order of minor adjustments to brightness levels) is required for most shots, if that. Plague of Stars put on a hell of a show and was a lot of fun to shoot. Neal (bass) and Melissa (vocals) were the real stars of the show, performance-wise visually; they were both really delivering and make up the majority of the shots. That’s not to say that the rest of the band wasn’t invested, they were; but Neal and Melissa were putting on most of the band’s visual performance, and were also the best-lit band members on the stage. Aaron and Will (both guitar) were definitely putting on a good performance, but were on the sidelines and the lighting rarely paid much attention to them: the best photos I have of them are when they’re next to someone better-illuminated (e.g., 15), I’m sorry to say. I probably would have had to be backstage to get any photos that featured Aaron (drums), who was rarely illuminated with anything more than ambient light and who had four other musicians standing in front of him.

All in all, great roll from a really enjoyable concert.

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Roll 1391

Wow! First roll I’ve shot of Agfa Copex and I’m really impressed. Super fine-grained, high-ish contrast, great for rendering textures (e.g., 06) and architectural details (e.g., 09–21, showing the basilica cathedral; 24, showing the exterior wall of Bluewood Brewing; 35, outside Balkan Treat Box). I’m ordering more of this film stock.

Looks like the early parts of the roll (01–04) were slightly lightstruck; this has a very thin base and maybe the problems are due to light piping? High contrast also means skies get blown out easily (e.g., 07, 08).

Highlights on stonework on the cathedral really do get blown out easily (e.g., 12, 14)—guess this is really no surprise, given that I’m shooting with document-copying film—but tonemapping two-pass negatives pulls some detail back in highlights on some of the shots.

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