Return to the Darkroom
We finally got a camera store in Yuma, and they have a darkroom section. So we picked up some chems and paper and built a temporary but workable darkroom out of our 3rd bedroom and laundry room. No 120 film at the local store yet and I didn't feel like shooing 35mm so I grabbed a roll of Ilford FP4+ that expired 10 years ago and had been sitting in the bottom of a box since then. Exposed in a plastic Lubitel 166 and developed for 8 minutes in ID-11 it actually came out halfway decent. My cheap scanner added a lot of dust and reflections though so these scans don't do the original prints justice at all. If I get some good prints eventually I may dust off my good scanner.
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First contact sheet. The shot in the upper right I was trying to shoot through the fence...but kind of like the effect I ended up with. The shot below that was my first and I got the self timer and shutter mixed up - ended up WAY over exposing it. The other two there's a little lizard on the post who blended in very nicely. The upper one was as I metered the scene...the lower one was my out of practice correction to place the tones where I wanted them. Looks like I remember more than I give myself credit for.
