Recent content by Paul Taylor

It has amazed me how many more people I see smoking cigarettes these days , compared to a few years ago. I think (and I could be wrong) that the proliferation of vaping and the legalization of marijuana here has increased cigarette smoking. When the vape or pot runs out (or is out of budget)...

Too many, that is how many. Lol. My parents leased land to tobacco farmers, which I always found hilarious due to the amount of relatives I have had die of the consequences of smoking. Recently my cousin's wife was diagnosed with cancer (she is a non-smoker, but suspect it is a result of second...

Since Fomopan doesn't play nice with my usual B&W developer (Cinestill monobath) I ordered some Rodinal. I hadn't used it in a very long time. But anyways, here are the results. Fomopan 400 , 50:1 Adox Rodinal and fixer. Nikon F4s 35mm. P1003711 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr P1003691 by Paul...

_DSC6992 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr When my wife and I got married, we rented a house in the middle of a redwood forest in Northern California (the best part of Cali.) I owned a Sony a900 w/ a few Zeiss lenses at the time. This was the yard.

Some shots with the Fuji GS645W w/ Kentmere 400 P1003678 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr P1003675 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr P1003680 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr P1003676 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr

Minolta 7D digital and it's glorious 6MP of CCD : PICT0073 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr Pentax 645 & Kodak Gold 200 (leaves from the large tree in the last picture, different season!): img052 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr Branch Combat - Pentax 645 w/ Fuji 200 in Williams AZ. P1002368 by Paul...

Here are the first two large format pics I have developed / scanned. The one of the backside of the damn dam is damn close to the digital. When I look at the two I am like "damn." I do think I prefer the large format / Cinestill 400D version actually - mainly due to the dam water and saturation...

I met my wife in Globe, she was doing a contract forestry job up there. I have probably driven the paved section of Apache Trail thousands of times as it is a good road for sports car fun. They have been closing the unpaved section for 1 or 2 years at a time to pave the particularly problematic...

The fashion forward lady has cleverly matched her attire to the rather attractive road cones.

I took similar exposures, so they should provide an interesting comparison. I am quite happy with the files from the ol' D800. Most likely I will use my Stearman tank. I might do a few in a Jobo that I haven't tried yet.

I was feeling like a mini-trip and the weather was *supposed* to be nice Wednesday. Surprisingly, it was nice weather wise - except for the wind. But I took some allergy meds and embarked loaded with some camera gear. I took the Toyo 4x5 and some Cinestill 400D (I have bought a bunch of it - and...

Yeah, I don't know what they changed with that film stock - but I was super bummed the two rolls I developed that didn't turn out. Luckily I had a digital with me for that trip so it wasn't really a loss from a memory/picture perspective. I thought for sure that maybe my chemicals expired or I...

I have not had good luck with DF96 and Fomopan film - so I would not use that combo. Fomopan is the only film I have not had work well with DF96. I shot 4+ rolls of both 120 and 35mm to verify it was the film (it is.) It would either be zero density or very low density with ghosting. Extending...

I own the same tank and have had good results - however ever once in a while I will get a transfer of the "slats" on the film holders that is a result of the negative contacting the film holder. They mirror the oblong cutouts on the negative holder. After I develop I usually notice them, and...

My Digital gear doesn't get as much use as my film gear - but I decided to head down to the local riparian preserve with the new-to-me D800 and since the longest lens I have for it is a 200, I also took my Lumix G9 w/ Panasonic-Leica 100-400 (200-800 equiv.) It is quite the nice lens, as it is...