Week 35: Artspace

My photography club had a exhibition at a local ‘public’ gallery for the month of August.  I entered four photos, all taken during the course of this project.  Knowing that I would likely be putting them up in my own house, I had them mounted on metal, 3 at 16×24 and the fourth (a pinhole) on 16×16.  I got a few compliments from other photographers at the reception, including one club member who saw my pinhole and snapped a iPhone shot for future inspiration (always cool).

“Winter’s Last Gasp”

“Falls in Winter”

“Pinhole Castle”

“Beams”

The gallery is located in an apartment building, which used to be a large thread mill.  The mill complex itself has all kinds of interesting buildings, waterfalls, and a renovated bridge, so it was a good place to go poking around and shot some photos.

For this week, I used a Nikon FE with a Nikkor 50mm/1.8 lens and Eastman Double-X 5222 film, ISO 200.  I developed in Perceptol for 15 minutes–there was no time on the massive dev chart, so I tossed it in with my Delta 100 from my Mystic posting.  A little grainier than I would have expected considering the developer.

Gallery overview

Two of my entries

Dock?

Warehouse?

Artspace

Falls

River

Bridge

Turbine?

Water wheel?

And on the way home, there was some nice, angry clouds, so I got shot from a local farm.  I put a yellow filter on for this shot to make the clouds pop a little more.

Farm

Finally caught up!  I ended up buying two extra reels and another developing tank to do some mass processing.  I now have reels for all of my tanks: a 3 reel tank, two 2 reel tanks, and a single reel tank, along with a Mod54 for my 4×5 large formats.  “Let the souping begin!”  Next I’ll be building a darkroom and creating a camera obscura out of a friend’s barn.  Or, well, maybe just taking more photos.