I am currently trying to put together a web page to share that includes some of the projects I've developed over the past decade or so, including the experimental images I have shared here. The photos were mostly selected a long time ago, but as I was assembling them and reformatting them for the website I found that I was unhappy with the original processing of some of them. (More experience and better tools!) So, those images were taken back to the original DNG. JPG, or NEF, and reprocessed. Additionally, I found a few that I never did anything with. Here are three of them with the Triptych I finally assembled. These were shot in Wildwood, NJ, in August 1977.
FWIW, these were all shot with Kodak Panatomic-X, which was their finest-grain 35mm film with an ASA (predecessor to ISO) of 32 and developed in HC-110. They were probably shot with a Leica M-4 with a 35mm Summicron. The colorization was done with Photoshop's Neural Colorize filter. While there was significant retouching to the original B&W images (dust, scratches, etc.) (they are 47-year-old negatves after all) no attempt was made to improve the color as realism was not the goal.
Hello Mr. Williams,
I have plenty of negatives of snapshots that are in their develope envelopes and stuffed in various shoeboxes with no rhyme or reason as to a filing system and even to this day my sorting is: Drive:\R5 (or other Camera Body)\Year\Month\Location\CR3 (or other file type).
I really need to tag my photos so if I need to find a Beach photograph I don't have to spend hours opening tons of folders.
On a side note I have a roll of Panatomic-X (exp date: Jun 1978) in the refrigerator that I am going to take to the Tucson area next month. There should be enough light for ASA 32 on my Minolta SR-T201 version 1.
AND, before I get distracted, I like your edits, creative as usual. 😉
I wonder if ASA 32 is too high even if it has been in the refrigerator since 1978. You might research whether an alternative ASA or extended development is in order. Good luck!
From what I have read in the past year, it should be okay shooting as normal and the “over-expose by one stop for every decade past expiration” doesn't apply for such a slow film.