The best part of Albuquerque's Balloon Fiesta for me is actually not the balloons, but the Flamenco dance performances in the Old Town Plaza Vieja which are staged by the National Institute of Flamenco. I believe the small woman in the picture is Eva Encinias who founded the Institute as well as the unique Flamenco dance program at UNM. The tall woman beside her is the head teacher at the Institute.
I shot a roll of Kentmere 100 and another of Kentmere 400 this time around. Since I had two rolls of film to process I decided to try them both together using semi-stand processing in HC110 at 1:100 for an hour. I was very pleased with the results which this choice yielded for the Kentmere 400. The tonal qualities were very good and the grain was nearly undetectable. I have mostly used PMK Pyro as a developer for Kentmere in the past with good results, but I thought the quality of the HC110 pictures made with my Nikon FE were just as good if not better.
The Kentmere 100 shot in my FED 1g rangefinder responded less well to the HC110 stand development, so I'll likely stick with PMK Pyro processing for that film which seems better able to handle the higher contrast of the slower speed film.
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I haven't shot K400 in a long time, but I do have a few rolls sealed up in the freezer right now. Also, I love that a university is keeping some of these older art forms alive.
I've mostly shot Kentmere a stop wider and processed in PMK Pyro, but I'm pleased to see that it does well in HC110 also.
The performance featured mostly very young dancers; their skill and discipline were impressive.
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