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Prints hung up to dry.
#SFMuni #KodakBrownie #ContactPrint

#KodakBrownie picture of a bunker on #DevilsSlide, CA Hwy 1. Originally this was mostly underground but the soil has eroded away, and eventually it's going to fall into the ocean.
I wanted to spend more time composing a shot, but it was starting to rain, and there was a sheer cliff right behind me!

14mission Dec 28

#KodakBrownie picture of an #SFMuni #FLine PCC streetcar on a rainy night (Xmas Eve, actually).
The angle is kind of low because there wasn't anything handy to prop the camera on, and I didn't want to mess with a tripod when it was starting to rain again, so I put a little wooden box on the curb.
Information about this car: https://www.streetcar.org/streetcars/1059-1059-boston-elevated-railway/
#StreetCar #PCCStreetcar #PCC #Tram #Trolley

14mission Dec 28

#KodakBrownie pictures from #BernalHeights, SF, my old neighborhood.
#120film #BernalRock

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14mission Dec 18

With enlargers, people do burning/dodging/masking, so I decided to see if I could make this work with a #ContactPrint.
So, I want overexpose/darken the well-lit (so, in the negative, darker) outside bits, and underexpose/lighten the (in neg, lighter) tunnel interior. So I took an early crummy print and cut out the gateway.
I can put the surrounding part down on top of the glass that holds down the negative and photo paper, then expose a bit, remove it, and expose some more.
Kind of works.
Positioning the mask is tricky--definitely this would work better with enlargement prints (in that case, you can shine red light through your neg and use that to precisely align your mask).
But it seems to work in principle, at least.
I might honestly get better results just by making a dozen conventional prints with different exposure times and picking the one with the best balance.
But it's fun to try this stuff.
#darkroom #kodakbrownie #120film

14mission Dec 18

I took this (#KodakBrownie/#120film) picture from the inside of a tunnel. The first image is a scan from negative; the scanner usually quite helpfully adjusts levels and brings out contrast in ways that are hard to reproduce in actual printmaking.
My prints (I just do contact printing lately; the 6x9cm negs make nice little pictures) either wash out the outside in the background (cf the 2nd image) or make the tunnel interior completely black.
This is a time to try some #darkroom experimentation.
#ContactPrinting #ContactPrint #ContactPrints (I would like to reiterate my request that M should support hash-tags via #Regex!).

14mission Dec 15

From the eastern edge of #GoldenGatePark.
#KodakBrownie #SFMuni

14mission Dec 15

Mostly I like to post pictures that came out well. This one I'd like to do over again. Mostly I should have just aimed lower. But it's interesting, too. The streetcar at the bottom is warped. This is something that is kind of expected with the Brownie's simple lens. But interesting/odd that it's asymmetrical--that crane on the top of the image is pretty straight. Or maybe the distortion is only in the very marginal areas?
One thing I'm happy with is that I used the "SunCalc.org" app to pick the perfect time to come out and take this when the sun would be a good angle.
I'm in the area pretty often, I'll have another go at this next week.
#KodakBrownie #SFMuni #Trolley

14mission Dec 14

#Milpitas #SFBart station, taken with a #KodakBrownie.

14mission Dec 13

Latest negs look good, at least going by my favorite #blackandwhite subject.
#KodakBrownie