HP5 is amazing. Stand dev @6400

Gimenosaiz said:

Hello!

This are my examples:

madrid by Antonio Gimeno, on Flickr

madrid by Antonio Gimeno, on Flickr

Kodak Retina IIa
Trix@3200
Rodinal 1+100 : 120 minutes : 20 inversion first minute : 15" agitation every 30' : 20ºC

I'll look for the negative to show you how it looks like. I'd like to print it but I'm rearranging my darkroom now. I hope to do it in a couple of weeks.

Kind regards!
Antonio

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Adrian Bacon said:

Given what you had to work with they’re totally fine.

That being said, if it were me working on this in LR (not that you did anything wrong, because you didn’t), I’d have kept post processing much simpler by simply setting the exposure so the histogram was in the middle, then in the tone curve controller, drag the reflected whites up until they’re 85% luminance, then drag the shadows down to taste and let the rest of the tone values lie where they land, then turn off sharpening in the sharpening controller and maybe dial in some luminance noise removal in the noise removal controller, though with no sharpening on the native resolution file, the noise/grain will throttle back quite a bit.

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Mainecoonmaniac said:

Nice work! The biggest challenge for me with non-standing development for photos like these night shot is taming contrast.

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Gimenosaiz said:

Hello!

I want to share with you the results of my first stand development with HP5@6400.
I'm very interested in your experiences with this way of developing.Antonio

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Gimenosaiz said:

Hi!

Thank you!!! I didn't work a lot on the pics ... I mean, I did more or less what you recommend ... Well , you'd use the tone curve and I used the black, white and contrast sliders to get more or less the same. I think. But I'll try.

Thanks again!
Cheers
Antonio

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Gimenosaiz said:

The next step in this test is trying to print one of these photos! I hope to do it soon. I need to rearrange my darkroom these days.

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cliveh said:

HP5@6400 is not the best way of showing these wonderful dancers. Why not use a more standard film and development? The subject is more important than the photographic process.

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Adrian Bacon said:

They’re similar, but not the same. The contrast sliders for the zones affects the zone more than anything else, whereas the tone curve is a much smoother and fine-grained way to expand the contrast and roll off the whites and blacks.

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pentaxuser said:

These latest scenes with Tri-X at 3200 are excellent but the key question for pure analoguers like myself is what will the sarkroom prints from an enlarger look like.

Once you have your darkroom up and running, Gimenosaiz I look forward to scans which replicate the prints.

pentaxuser

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aleckurgan said:

In the meantime could you please make photos of those negatives with dancers. Would like to see how they look after stand development.

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