Brendon Kearns

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Found Photography: Dog Reading the Newspaper

After moving flats I’ve had a long delay in my posting ability- it took two weeks before I could get a technician out to setup my flat with net access, but in the meantime I’ve been steadily collecting negatives from in and around Sydney.

This is one of my favorite finds thus far for its sheer weird factor- if you look closely she has her glasses placed on the dog. I found a few less well composed and more over exposed shots of these two and their dogs so I’m guessing this was just someone messing around with a flash.

Later while scanning I found I had picked up this negative of the same women- I had pulled them out singularly from a box of mixed prints, based on the negatives themselves I hadn’t realise the two shots were related although I think its interesting to see them in two very different contexts; I’m assuming this last frame was from a funeral.

Learning to Develop

After much internal debate I finally decided to take a class on doing my own film development over the ACP- so far its been fairly good as I’ve developed a couple rolls of Tri-X and learned about the print process by creating my own contact sheet.

This first shot was with Xtol at 1:1 and yeilded a very fine grain but low contrast image

This second shot was with Rodinal at 1:50 which came out with a grainier and harder feel

I feel like the Xtol seems good for scans as I can always bump up the contrast in the image via Lightroom to whatever is needed- but I like the grain showing through on the Rodinal. I’ve read online that this is fairly common and there has been a lot of experimentation with adding a drop of Rodinal to your Xtol to get the best of both worlds.

While these were just off some test rolls I ran through on the walk to class, this Sunday was the first time I was really able to get back out and shoot straight street so I’m psyched to get those rolls dev’d and the photos up even though I havnt yet posted the slew I’ve scanned from my trip to the states a month ago on top of a mountain of interesting found or loaned slides to scan on the side- should have plenty to keep me busy in the coming weeks.

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