Cayo Costa #1

How hard was the home processing? Are you satisfied with these results? It looks nice to me, though the colours might be slightly too cyan. I can't tell if that's correct for this scene, or if it's the scan, or if the processing was a bit off.

Did you do it manually in a temperature bath? I've got to get started with that someday. I had a jobo CPP2 at one point but I sold it (no room for it).

Hi Walter, I went the jobo cpp2 route with the kodak 5 L kit. All times and temps were as directed. 38c and 6min 30sec for first developer. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
I think the color is the result of slightly underexposed velvia. That stuff can yield great results or carnival colors, and not much in between.
It better not be the scanner, its a calibrated creo iq smart 2, painfully expensive but oh so nice.

One of the joys of black and white is that one doesn't usually feel it's
necessary to be tonally "correct for the scene" the way that color photographers do. The way you've heavily polarized the sky here reminds me of the way one might burn the sky down to near black for expressive effect in black and white. In short, I like this a lot....it has courage!

"One of the joys of black and white is that one doesn't usually feel it's
necessary to be tonally "correct for the scene" the way that color photographers do."

I've never let colour fedelity stand in my way.

Very well done.

I just got from a lab my first attempt in 4x5 colour slide - all colours screwed up. Your example encourages me to try to do processing myself.