Yankee Pedaling

Last weekend Erin wanted to go to the Yankee Peddler Festival at Clay's Park Resort. It is kind of a New England craft show with food, crafts, exhibits and music. The ride down was mostly the Towpath Trail to Canal Fulton and then a little bit of country roads. After that we rode back towards Akron and then turned and went out to Kent for their Oktoberfest celebrations. It all made for a fun day on the bikes.

Kodak Portra 400

Kodak Portra 400 seems to be the things all the kids love these days so I thought I would see what all the hype was about. Well - I'm not sure. I understand it is supposed to be a more subdued film than some of the stocks I like - but it really came out over-exposed and under-saturated. This is kind of my problem with color film - did I over-expose, was it developed bad, did my scanner not like it? As washed out as these look I actually did darken them a bit and add some contrast in post. I don't know - I have a decent amount of color film left in the fridge but after that I think I'll stick to B&W. I can just control all of the processes so much better and have a much better eye for comparing them. I still dig some of these photos even if it looks like they were shot on expired film.

Free Black! at Dirty River

On Friday Dirty River Bicycle Works had an outdoor concert with Free Black! - they played their new album. Free Black is Flocco Torres and drummer HR3. It was a great show and a fun night with lots of friends and bike friends who rode there and after.

Overdeveloped at Brandywine

This was my second time developing Kodak Tri-X in Rodinal. I liked the results I got the first time but this time I think I overdeveloped the negatives a bit. I like the contrast-y look that I get from HC-110 and I did dig it the first time with Rodinal but this went a little too far. I think I absent mindedly agitated right at the beginning of development which I usually don't do. There were still some cool shots in here which is why I am sharing anyways - I just wish I had some midtones!