Penwith, Cornwall, September 2025
Pentax 645/Ilford FP4/ID11@1+4 (accidentally) 20 mins.
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Soft light at Nine Maidens
- Thread starter Toby Webster
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Penwith, Cornwall, September 2025
Pentax 645/Ilford FP4/ID11@1+4 (accidentally) 20 mins.
I see what you are doing Toby, but some directional light would work better for me.
Me too, Alan, but there just wasn't any, not exactly murky or mizzly, but very Cornish nonetheless. Not helped of course by the fact that I underdeveloped the film; it should have been 1 + 3.
Yes I noticed that you said you accidentally used a 1+4 dilution. I have made much bigger mistakes!
(since I´ve only done that once my self)
I’m wondering whether the tiniest bit of burning in at the top might give more of a sense of depth and bring out the atmosphere more
Thanks all. Simon, I burned in the sky as much as I dared, I felt that any more and it counterintuituvely starts to pull the atmosphere off. Film is anyway far less responsive to photoshop manipulation than digital, as burning in too much starts to excessively accentuate the grain. It would probably work better in the darkroom.
Fair enough
Well, having said all that, Tommy very kindly PM'd me a much bolder edit, which I have had a stab at reproducing. I think I got pretty close - I did so rather than repost his version as I felt that I needed the editing exercise. As I said to him, I suspect I've got a bit timid with my processing since I've gone back to film. I'm a great admirer of Tommy's work, of which we sadly don't see so much these days. Here it is, as he would have done it were it his;
Very nice, no drama, a feeling of isolation