Fort Royal Hill in PanF

[Hamish Gill]

Not sure these are particularly good, I just wanted to see how PanF came out ...
Im also trying to beat my issues with trees in B&W photography
PanF deved in ilford DDX
Instead of using my changing bag to load the film on to the spiral I did it in the cupboard under the stairs... less dust!

 

[Kev Pugh]

Hamish these work pretty darned good, and no speckles................Bonus

 

[Hamish Gill]

... cheers Kev
A few speckles, but not quite as many!

 

[Pete Askew]

I like that second one Hamish, with the sinister figure on the hill. Doesn't look like PanF mind. The last one does though so maybe it was just the lighting and your 'PP'.

 

[Thomas brookes]

1 and 2 are awesome mate!!!!! Was that a randomer at the top or did you get someone to pose?? Works so well

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Excellent Hamish!
Good to see this place in the daytime. The first one is great. liking the sun shining through the trees.

 

[Hamish Gill]

It's pp ...
Getting to grips with what all these films offer ...

 

[Hamish Gill]

Cheers dan an Tom ...
Just a randomer mate

 

[Chris Dodkin]

1 and 2 are my faves - and the figure makes them plus the excellent angled comp

Looks like you prefer more contrasty B&W Hamish?

 

[Hamish Gill]

I perhaps do Chris ...
I likes the effect of the film on the shots, but it wasn't what I had in mind when I took them!
Each time I use a new film of dev, hopefully I'll learn where and when to use them better ...

As an aside to that though, it does strike me that PanF makes a good starting point for any sort of PP ...
Very smooth images with little grain, and low contrast make for a great start to doing why ever you like to an image...
IE grain and contrast are much easier to add than to take away!

So yeah, I could see me using the film again for both wanting that low contrast almost creamy feel ... Or even if I just wanted a clean image to work with!

I don't really know much about this sort of thing, but that seems a fairly sensible stand point?

The first 5 images from the roll, which I should be able to show you sometime were done for the Jenner Museum ... The one we are doing a site for! I stuck the roll of panf in as I wanted the images to have that feel that you somtimes get... They have turned out quite nice really! Just can't put them on the forum for now :/

 

[Chris Dodkin]

You make a good point Hamish - it's as good a starting point as you'll find

You can't beat the fine grain and smooth tones.

Plus - for the fast prime work I've been doing - you need a slow film to avoid having to use ND filters!

 

[Hamish Gill]

Just run a roll of delta 100 through this avo as I'm intrigued to see how it differs from FP4 (which I liked a lot) ...
But I do just keep thinking, I could probably survive never shooting anything but HP5 ... It pushes well in ddx, an I personally don't do much low ISO stuff ...
Dunno, it's a lot of fun all this, but I do wonder, of I'm going to pp in LR anyway, I wonder how much all these different feels will en up meaning to me ... ?