Response to Photo Viriti

The light is really difficult here. There's about ten days a year when the sky can be in the photo. Otherwise, it's this bland silvery blue that a red filter doesn't seem to affect - it's just plain bland. You just have to learn to use what you get, I guess...

I shoot Tri-X (the traditional 400 version) at 320 and process in Rodinal. I rarely stray from that combination, sometimes someone will give me some out-of-date film (I just shot some five or six year old Delta 400 yesterday), or I will need to shoot Tri-X in the dark at some ridiculous EI, but 98% of the time, it's the same. The scans are usually pretty straight, with only a levels adjustment, spotting, light sharpening, and sizing.

The shot Tom mentions is below; click on it to see a large version. The web is a terrible medium for unusual size images. This is two frames next to each other. I was looking to get the people at the edges of the frame, and this is an interesting result. I should rescan to show the film border, probably.

Copyright 2000 Jeff Spirer

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