{"id":18071,"date":"2017-03-20T06:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18071"},"modified":"2017-03-14T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:42:54","slug":"narrow-gauge-monochrome-a-different-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/narrow-gauge-monochrome-a-different-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow Gauge Monochrome\u2014A Different Approach."},"content":{"rendered":"

Five alternative views of Ireland\u2019s Bord na Mona railway.<\/p>\n

Here I\u2019m trying something different: Working with an old Leica IIIa fitted with an ancient screw-mount Nikkor 35mm lens, I exposed some Fomapan 100 black & white film.<\/p>\n

Instead of my normal process, I opted to soup the film in Ilford Perceptol. I mixed the stock solution from powder. Recommended development time was 8 minutes, but I cut this to 6 minutes, then after complete processing (stop, fix, hypo-clear and wash) I toned the negatives with a 1-9 Selenium solution to boost highlights (and then rewashed).<\/p>\n

It was my first time working with Perceptol; overall I was pleased with the results, which yielded fine grain, broad tonality and a somewhat softer over-all image than what I\u2019d been getting using ID-11.<\/p>\n

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This camera-lens-film-developer combination seems to have worked well with the rustic Bord na Mona narrow gauge industrial railway. I\u2019ve opted to display a handful of the dozen or so monochrome images I exposed that day.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light<\/span> takes a different approach today.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five alternative views of Ireland\u2019s Bord na Mona railway. Here I\u2019m trying something different: Working with an old Leica IIIa fitted with an ancient screw-mount Nikkor 35mm lens, I exposed some Fomapan 100 black & white film. Instead of my normal process, I opted to soup the film in Ilford Perceptol. I mixed the stock … Continue reading Narrow Gauge Monochrome\u2014A Different Approach.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[3814,4102,4101,4537,26,318,20],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bord-na-Mona_\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333124.jpg?fit=1810%2C1105","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Ht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18072,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071\/revisions\/18072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}