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Interesting photograph - crispy and sharp ! The sepia/orange tone gives weight to the rusty, vintage feel. Like it !

Excellent Mr Silver, but your on a slippery slope now, you may well fall in to the trap of alternative processing and other forms of alchemy.
Whats your process with using pyroHD? I dont think Im getting enough stain when I use it.

Fred, Thank You.

Awty, if Pyro imparts a stain - as its supposed to - I can't tell at all. Per Sandy King, my stop bath is 1/2 strength or less and I've even tried just water - but no visible difference to my eye. 'Used Ilford, Kodak stop bath & fixers, but my eyes can't tell the difference.

The block itself is a couple inches shorter than my 6' frame. To the left is an early 2-man chain saw - over 7' long. The other end is simply an 8-9" tube w/ black electricians tape to hold on to. I wouldn't want to be the one to hold on. The double doors to the right are 4" thick, 500 lbs each of old growth fir.

The negative doesn't actually look sepia like this does it? I've never seen FP4 look like that. Perhaps this is a pyro thing but I've never used it.

Scanning as colour may have thrown off the scanner's white balance. A Pyro negative is going to have a yellowish tint, about opposite on the colour wheel.

When one looks at the size of the trees that were pulled out of the Pacific Northwest, the scale of the tackle makes sense.

Svenedin, this has prompted alot of confusion. The color cast has *nothing* to do w/ the Pyro. I get it from scanning a mono negative in color mode. D-76, HC-110, Rodinal - all give a similar cast - which does not appear on the negative. BTW - your lion knocker is right out of some movies like Dicken's Christmas carol where the knocker is used to open a scene from one of the ghosts. 'Nice job.

Grahamp - you're right about the timber. The former owner of my home took me on a nearby hike, showing me a very old Douglas fir that was over 6' in diameter. The 2nd growth Grand Fir in my yard had to have a 2" cut taken on both sides so a 4' saw bar would reach across. You can bet the earth shool when it landed.

Thank for the explanation HiHo and for the comment about the door knocker. These are specially cast and still made but only when there are enough orders for a batch. My old knocker fell off some years ago and I thought it was burglars trying to get in! Nice photo the lustre of the old iron is appealing.

That was *your* knocker. Fine taste indeed.

Well, what ever you did with works!

So...we're seeing the negative as a transparency, not a print?

You might enjoy Nik Silver Efex Pro. Still free.