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Ken Nadvornick

Location, Time/Date, Conditions
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Monroe, Washington, USA
12:14am, July 24, 2005
Single mercury-vapor outdoor lamp in total darkness

Camera, Lens, Exposure, Equipment/Technique
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Yashica MAT-124G TLR (twin lens reflex) 120-roll film camera
Sekonic L-398 Studio Deluxe handheld incident light meter
80mm f/2.8 Yashinon viewing (upper) lens
80mm f/3.5 Yashinon imaging (lower) lens
14 sec (reciprocity-correction included) at f/16-22
Tripod-mounted, bulb-setting with cable release/wrist watch
Single meter reading from subject's head position, no filter

Film, Processing, Printing, Digitizing
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Kodak Tri-X B&W film at ASA 200
Developed in Kodak D-76d (1+1) for 6.75 min at 68F/20C
Projected using 150mm f/5.6 Componon-S, Omega D5XL enlarger
Enlarged to 3.75x magnification, cropped slightly upper left
Print size 7 x 7 inches (17.8 x 17.8 cm)
Illuminated by Zone VI cold light, using Aristo V54 VC tube
Printed on Oriental Seagull VC RP-F paper, Kodak D-72B (1+2)
Ilford MultiGrade variable contrast filter #5
42 sec at f/11 base exposure, 24 sec at f/11 lamp halo burn
Digitized HP 6200C flatbed scanner, 690x690x24bpp at 100 dpi
Post-processed using GIMP2 under Windows 2000


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