Photographic Crunch: Update

I took a few not-bad photos at the 10k womens' race: the one of the winner crossing the line with her hands up would have made the back page of a paper in the olden days, but not really good enough to make a sell-able print, now. I learned a lot,including: just be calm, and remember to look at the meter needle, look at the background. And think, don't just snap away. I also learned that I really don't like HP5+, not enough contrast.

I've only got the negs to go on from the Orange walk, and from the anti Trump protest in George Square. Several of them look intriguing, and I'm looking forward to scanning them to see what's print-worthy, sometime later this week.

I processed four films yesterday, different makes, different speeds and therefore dev times, and promised myself I'll never get into that ridiculous situation again, taking four times longer than it should have. I've been using up expired film, all different manufacturers, but from hereon in it's Tri X, Ektachrome, and Portra, for both 35mm and 120.

And I've realized making contact prints is unnecessary when one has access to a scanner, (unless a contact print is wanted as a thing unto itself, to hang on a wall).

I didn't do the pride march - it's website seemed to suggest it was mostly commercial enterprise, and anyway the anti-trump demo popped up the day before. Not sure about the pipers now, either, will seem very tame after the Orangemen and anti-Trump.

Might try it with the Holga and 3 rolls of old Ektachrome, or I've got a couple old rolls of 35mm for the Nikon... this whilst we're waiting for the re-launch of Ekatachrome, which could be any day now.

BUT, if I'm wrong about the negatives from the Orangemen and anti-Trump, and they turn out to be merely not-bad, then I need to soldier on a little longer with black and white in the Nikon.

The point is, must be able to go to any public event with the Nikon and black and white film, and consistently get several exposures which would, in a parallel universe, "get in the paper". 

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