Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

I add three new pictures from one roll I just scaned. Roll was exposed in March this year, in a time I was still in Stockholm. I have two more rolls to scan from that time and I belive also two to develop. I will try again Ilfotec LC29 even I have got feeling that it brings little bit more grain. Last time I did it like this:

Fuji Neopan 400 exposed @ 400 with ilfotec LC29 @ 1:29

1 x 60sec constant inversions
7 x 60sec 3xinversions in 5sec

1 x 30 sec stop bath
1 x 30 sec wather bath

10x 30 sec 3xinversions in 5sec Ilford Rapid Fix 1:4

This is a example from my first roll in Ilford Ilfotec LC29. Maybe next time I'll try little less time and also lower dilution to reduce a grain. And maybe I'll do it in steps so it will be easier to see effect.

Always, when I see old bicycle I can't resist and I take a picture of it. And also this one in streets of Stockholm I found interesting. Rust gives it a nice shade tones.

As we were walking in Sodermalm I notice this shadow on a wall. Find it interesting, made by sharp Sun in a spring day, which was promissing summer, but still cold. That day we spent a lot of hours walking on this island of Stockholm and saw how people were pull to street to welcome the Spring Sun.

This photograph was exposed using old Ikon Zeiss Continnetta of my friend. One can see little unshapness, mainly on print or high resolution scan. The unsharpness is mostly visible at corner of the shots. Negative was developed using Ilford Ilfotec LC29 1:29 and it has a more grain than I wa sused from Kodak Xtol 1:1.