#Rodinal

2026-01-21

The Answer Lies Within

📷 #MamiyaSix
🎞️ #IlfordHP5plus
🧪 #Rodinal 1+50
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Black and white photo of a neon sign on the wall saying "The Answer Lies Within" with a cursive font. The border of the image on top and bottom is perforations from 35 mm film and some film markings. *** Shot with a Mamiya SixVa and Zuiko75f3.5 lens, on IlfordHP5+, and developed with Rodinal by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
2026-01-21

So I experimented with loading some 35 mm film into my Mamiya Six to see if I could get some "panoramic" images. I learned a lot but I'm also very happy with some of these happy accidents.

The view window in the back jostled open (despite the leather case) and leaked through enough light to create the orb but not enough to just burn it altogether. The spots are from few tiny remnants after the wash, so small that I didn't notice, but I might wash the film again.

I call this one, "That's no Moon". I'll post a few more in this thread.

📷 #MamiyaSix
🎞️ #IlfordHP5plus
🧪 #Rodinal 1+50
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

A black and white photo of an outdoor scene with some trees in the left corner and a river bank in the distance to the right and bottom. The most promiment feature is a bright circle almost looks like a giant moon especially since there are many small white dots streaking acoss the frame. The border of the image on top and bottom is perforations from 35 mm film and some film markings. *** Shot with a Mamiya SixVa and Zuiko75f3.5 lens, on IlfordHP5+, and developed with Rodinal by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
2026-01-19

Revisiting my not-so-successful roll of infrared for #MonochromeMonday.

Slowly editing photos over time feels like a "failed to keep up with backlog" for me, but I'm trying to turn that into "stretching the good experience longer while learning over time", it's a difficult mental jujitsu.

📷 #BessaR2 + #7Artisan35mmf2
🎞️ #RolleiInfrared
🧪 #Rodinal
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#IR #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #InfraredFilm

Black and white infrared photo of a mountain stream meandering its way through a wide patchy basin and entering a lake. The sides of the basin are lined with mostly conifer trees which are glowing shades of white because of the infrared film and there are two deer on the right bank of the basin which show up as small specks beyond which there's the lake and the mountains framing the background under some gaps in the undulating clouds backlit by a distant sun offscreen. *** Shot with a Voightlander BessaR2 and 7Artisan35f2 lens, on RolleiInfrared, and developed with Rodinal by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
2025-12-22

#SilentSunday

Infrared film is quite wild (even though it didn't turn out right) it looks magical. At first glance this looks like a winter scene but there was no snow. The trees are green not white, the water is light to deep turquoise not black but somehow the rocks come out about what they look like.
It's been a good idea to visit this roll after a bit and see the images without the initial disappointment of mistakes-made compounded by non-ideal weather. I'll have a few more to post later.

📷 #BessaR2 + #7Artisan35mmf2
🎞️ #RolleiInfrared
🧪 #Rodinal
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#IR #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #InfraredFilm

A black and white infrared photogpraph of rocks and a waterfall encased with trees on all sides. The conifer trees are all glowing white in infrared an almost looks like a winter scene, drawing a sharp contrast to the water that appears very dark save for the crashing rapids. Shot with a Voightlander BessaR2 and 7Artisan35f2 lens, on RolleiInfrared, and developed with Rodinal by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
2025-12-12

Should I go back to analog? The pleasure and impatience of waiting for the film to be completely shot before developing it, the pleasure of seeing a beautiful negative come out of the tank. I want to prepare some #Rodinal ! But I don't have enough time. I can't wait to retire from my full-time job!

:artcamblk2: Canon AE-1
:35mmilfordgrn: AGFAPAN 400

#believeInFilm #analogPhotography #blackAndWhite #filmPhotography #filmIsNotDead

Lors du carnaval de Venise en 1984, un personnage masqué coiffé d'un haut chapeau noir et un autre non-masqué, à la longue chevelure clairejoue du violon, à l'arrière plan quelques personnes floues.
Santiago :arandela:santiago@mastodon.uy
2025-12-12

También me traje la ampliadora que supe usar durante un tiempo, hace unos 20 años, cuando hice fotografía B&W con una Olympus Pen FT de medio cuadro. Tengo varias fotos escaneadas. Principalmente trabajaba con Agfapan de 25 ASA, Ilford Pan F de 50 ASA y algunas astrofotografías con la Tri-X forzada o color la Fuji Superia de 800 para astronomía o la Velvia para slide. Revelaba con Rodinal y generalmente utilizaba papel fotográfico multigrado, creo que Agfa también y algunos Talbot viejos y vencidos, antes que fueran tendencia (lo de usar papel fotográfico vencido). En la ampliadora Usaba un lente Componar y también un Componon f/2.8. Todo eso me traje #photography #fotografía #agfa #rodinal #componar #componon #filmphotography #fotografíaAnalogica

Lente Componar f/4.5 de ampliadora
2025-11-27

Another heavily underexposed image here but I really like the soft light highlighting this young tree amongst the large mature trees. I do have some better exposures that I'll share as I work on them, but somehow the poorly exposed ones are the ones I'm most drawn to.

📷 #BessaR2 + #7Artisan35mmf2
🎞️ #RolleiInfrared
🧪 #Rodinal
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Black and white photo of a dark forest scene where there are many trees in the background. There is a small clearing up a gentle slope where a lone tree much smaller than the behemoths around it is gently light as if through an overhead limelight. The scene is very underexposed and quite gritty and the infrared film makes the vegetation app    ear white and glowy, especially the central subject. Shot with a Voightlander BessaR2 and 7Artisan35f2 lens, on RolleiInfrared, and developed with Rodinal by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
2025-11-21
Time it was
And what a time it was
It was a time of innocence
[Paul Simon]

shot on #ilford #PANF with my #pentaxMX camera
home developed with #rodinal

#messingwithfilm #ishootfilm #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm
#LoStereoNelCervello
2025-11-21

I'll post a few more from this roll of infrared. This frame was severely underexposed but I really like the scene. While it's really not showcasing infrared prominently (except the dark sky) it does have an other wordly glowy feel to it. Sometimes you just like a thing and it doesn't make objective sense, this is one of those.

Interesting off screen note: there were wet foot prints from someone who had gone swimming in the lake not too long before I arrived. That water was 40°F / 4.5°C at best 🥶

📷 #BessaR2 + #7Artisan35mmf2
🎞️ #RolleiInfrared
🧪 #Rodinal
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

A black and white photo with a pair of raised ladder handles attached to the end of a dock which is sitting on a lake that stretches to the out of focus background framed by mountains with snowy peaks under a darker sky with swirly white clouds.
2025-11-20

Well this was my first roll of Infrared with the R72 filter. I didn't get everything in time to do a practice run before I took it on a trip and that really shows in the roll. I also didn't get bright sunny days but I had already loaded the film so went ahead and shot it over a couple of days. And given how wildly off the exposures were I had to stand develop to try to salvage it but I really should have pushed by 2 stops instead. Fair to say that I'm not happy with what I got.
But it is still a fun learning experience, got to be in the mountains, and look at those white trees!!!

📷 #BessaR2 + #7Artisan35mmf2
🎞️ #RolleiInfrared
🧪 #Rodinal
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

A black and white photo shot on infrared film so the organic vegeation like trees looks bright white. There are many trees with a prominent pine in the front right foreground that are growing alongside a rushing creek with some rapids with white crests, the the distance there are layers of mountains with some tree coverage and rocky snow dusted peaks.

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