For children the light at the end of the tunnel is bright, and the tunnel is short.
My 7 year-old daughter recently took an interest in my photography hobby, so I gave her my Nikon 8008 with it's 35-70 f/3.3 zoom lens. She insisted on taking a picture of a covered bridge, or "tunnel" as she calls them. So we drove around until we found the nearest one..... but we had to do it twice. For the first trip, she brought one roll. She took 12 pictures of her brother seated next to her, 15 pictures of his glove (black with a skeleton hand on it), 5 pictures of her knee, and 5 pictures outside her window at <too blurry to tell>. We got set it up to take a shot of the bridge and the camera beeped at us to say "feed me more please".
The next day we came back with a fresh roll, and got there fast enough that she still had 5 frames left. This was frame #32. I didn't capture the exposure & aperture settings, except I'm guessing it was ~ 1/60 at f/8.
Kentmere 100 developed in Arista Premium Liquid Developer 1:9 for 19 1/2 minutes at 68F. There was no precedent that I could find for this combination, so I performed a clip test to figure it out. I typically prewash for 5 minutes, then agitate 30 seconds and perform two inversions every minute, and developing this roll was no exception.
Printed on Multi-Grade Fiber Based matter paper (I *think* it's Ilford), with the enlarger set for Grade 2 and exposed for 40 seconds @ f/8. I love the warm tone of the paper so I tried to capture that in the scan. Developed in PolymaxT for 2 minutes at 68F.
The tree on left is dodged but not enough I think. The bridge is just a hair crooked, too. I may go back and reprint to get my lines straight. You can also see the waviness from me trying to get a fiber based print perfectly flat coming through the scan. Oh the joys of darkroom work.
