Brock Township 2020 Part Two

 

Ilford FP4 125 ISO black and white film, an old classic that keeps on delivering. Of course within the film photography community there's a collective shooting project around the social media hashtag, #FP4party usually early March, which is nice if you live somewhere the sun shines brightly, like south Florida. Where I live in the Great Lakes Region, we're using different descriptions on what the grey skies look like. usually polished concrete, or very off black, or pale anthracite, or my friend John Meadow's description, nicotine stained mother of pearl. You get the idea, pushed Ilford HP5 at 1600 ISO makes more sense in that lighting. So I did a personal #FP4party on an early fall day that felt more like Summer. 

You can use any developer with this film pretty much but I decided to roll with Ilford's ID-11 at a 1+1 dilution, an oldie but a goodie. ID-11 is Ilford's version of Kodak's D76 and the times are interchangeable. I'm partial to classic developers with cubic grained films, there's more character, that translates in the scans and the wet darkroom prints. 

That reminds me, I should get another bulk roll of FP4 for the film fridge at some point. 

Camera: Nikon FE2, Nikkor Ais 50 f1.8 lens (pancake version). 

Film: Ilford FP4 125, ID-11 1+1.