Tuesday, June 16, 2020

June in the Bosque

The cottonwood forest along the river is bursting with life in June.  The Yerba Mansa is particularly impressive this year and I am seeing more varieties of wildflowers than I recall in past years.  Even though it has been warm and rather wet this Spring, there are no mosquitoes in the bosque; that makes riverside walks more pleasant, but may not bode well for the ecosystem.

Cottonwoods

Yerba Mansa

Siberian Elm

Pale Evening Primrose

Sandbells

I have had poor luck with my C-41 color processing for some time compared with the results I was getting initially when I started with it a few years ago.  I am seeing quite a bit of color shifting and red staining.  Both the Unicolor and Cinestill kits are giving me only half the number of rolls before exhaustion that I was getting before.

4 comments:

JR Smith said...

Why do you think that is? Quality control issues?

Mike said...

I suspect there have been changes in the components, but I have not been able to find reports of problems similar to what I have experienced. As I recall, the Unicolor kit instructions originally said that a liter kit would be good for twelve rolls of film. Now, they only promise eight. The Cinestill kit also indicates eight rolls, but then they also say that the kit can be reused for up to twenty-four rolls by extending development times by two percent for each roll processed.

Kodachromeguy said...

Mike, very nice. I especially like frame no. 1, the cottonwoods. Good luck sorting out C41. The rare times I use C41 film, I send it out. In the past, I used Dwayne's in Parsons, KS, but they closed for the virus. I am not sure if they have reopened yet. Cheers.

Mike said...

I've checked my digital thermometer against a mercury one and they seem very close. I'm going to order a new C-41 kit and I'll report back.