Planet Randy

Add a bit of clouds and some sun light… just point and shoot.

Had to do some steep and gnarly Jeep roads just to get here.

The Road 400 is spectacular!

A Caltech scientist saw us photographing behind the fences. After questioning what was our intent, he let us in and thought the composition would be better if we were a lot closer. He was right!

Fujifilm Superia 200, negative scan.

I finally got to fire up my Jobo – I had a box of Unicolor C-41 chemistry and Fuji Superia 200 roll from Death Valley. I don’t think I’ll do color printing – too involve I think. I like the look of color negative compared to my DSLR outputs.

Scanned with Epson V750:

My OM-1n was recently killed in action. After about a year and half of service, including a tour of duty in Cancun, Mexico, the film cock (hehehe… I wrote “cock”) got stuck.

I will most likely have it repaired again but in the meantime, I think I will enjoy my father’s Canon AE-1. I had it CLA’d recently and it’s been working like a champ, though, I can’t use my OM lenses on it. However, I do have a 50mm F/1.4 and an M42 adapter so I can use my Pentax SMC Takumars on it.

Sent out another print to Europe and I decided to print this image from Xcaret, Mexico. The glossy FB print needed some dodging to get more detail inside the structure.

This 35mm film is the Legacy Pro 400 (re-branded Fuji Neopan 400) I under exposed it by 2 stops giving an equivalent ISO rating of 1600. Stand developed it with Rodinal 1:100 for about an hour in the hotel room, making the bathroom a makeshift dark room at night. I didn’t want to bring it back home un-processed as TSA or Mexico’s airport security X-rays might fog it.

So far I’ve been getting prints from the exchange. I’ve read others are not so lucky, either its lost in the mail or their donor just don’t send one.

Well… finally got around to print one for APUG’s BPX10 assignment – this one is going to France. It’s a snap of Darwin Falls near Death Valley, a waterfall at the edge of the desert can you believe that?

Printed on 8×10 Arista EDU Ultra Glossy VC Fiber Paper, dipped and dunked in Dektol, then fixed on Kentmere’s liquid fixer.