The Mechanic...

Just beautiful. I looked at the larger version as well, what a great job you did here. Love the tones you ended up with!

Are you saying that the "tone" is just of the negative per se; that a half an hour of more washing would have changed the color to a more neutral tone?

No...washing a half hour more wouldn't have changed anything on my negs. This is a scan, not a print. However, this is quite indicative of our final prints as we usually selenium the images on warm tone paper. I choose not to scan in black & white mode or grayscale simply because I lose detail and depth in the image.

This is not accidental...it's our process. We overexpose & underprocess the film to achieve the warmer tones, but we don't compromise the archival nature of our work. It's fully fixed and fully washed. Hope that helps.

I just looked at the other photo that you posted of this man and I liked it, but this one is fantastic. It's one of my favorites portraits that I've seen of yours. The eye contact and his stance are perfect here. I look at this and feel like I know a bit about this man without ever having met him. You do good work with that 'old' Canon.