Isn't it weird to go somewhere you thought you knew and see it from a completely new angle? While stranded at my family's house in VA I did just that.
My sister and nephew took me to see the Van Gogh Immersive exhibit in Washington DC for one of the days I was stranded with a broken down car. Not a bad way to spend a day. Of course, being a camera freak I had to take along a few cameras and snap whatever caught my fancy.
I can't remember the last time I went to DC but it certainly wasn't as I remembered it. Perhaps I had just never been to the more run down parts that I heard about growing up. Whatever it was, amongst the drug deals and the homeless camps I think I did manage to get at least these decent images.
These three were all taken with my Nikon N50 on Kentmere 400 black and white film. The first shot I just liked the way the intersection looked. The second one was a shot when I thought we weren't going to get much closer to the Capital building. Of course we drove closer 🤦.
I developed them all in Caffenol as always, but of course something went wrong in the reel loading or with the agitation. I don't think it is the chemicals or the time, since not all of the images on the roll have fogging. Given that this was my first experience with 35mm it's pretty likely that I screwed up loading the reel somehow.
I may have one or two more rolls of black and white 35mm so I can try again, but for now I am loaded up with expired color films in both my Samsung and my Nikon. Eventually I will finish a roll and stumble through C-41 again just to remind myself how much more I enjoy black and white!
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When I was developing B&W films, I remember that slight fluctuations of the room and solutions temperatures were impacting the outcome a lot.
I find it great working with old stuff, for instance one of the boxes with photo-paper I use for my solargraphy project has been manufactured in 1983 and it is still good!
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It's kinda weird how only some of the roll was fogged. I wonder if maybe the film was bunched up on the reel.
I'd love to try solargraphy, but I'm afraid I'm getting way too deep with new projects! One day... One day...
If I recall correctly, there is a certain bacteria that eats the chemical compounds that contain silver, when the films are hold in a bit more humid environment than usual. There could be so many reasons :) That's the magic of film photography but sometimes it is painful :)))
Solargraphy is cheap and simple. Two empty beer cans, a small sheet of photo-paper, some duct-tape and a lot of patience :) If you can wait and remember to pick up the "camera" after 6-9 months :)))
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