Ilford HP5 portrait

ashishtamhane · 7 Nov 2024

So after about a break of about 20 years I shot some film and here is the first photo from that.

Shot on the Ilford HP5 on the Nikon F90x. I am just happy that I managed to get an actual photo for now!

Harlequin565 · 7 Nov 2024

I love HP5. There's just something so timeless about the look.,

ashishtamhane · Friday at 2:39 AM

Harlequin565 said:
I love HP5. There's just something so timeless about the look.,

Being new to film I just randomly picked one whose price seemed ok. The hi res scans are showing quite a lot of grain actually. Is it the usual case?

zx9 · Friday at 1:35 PM

ashishtamhane said:
Being new to film I just randomly picked one whose price seemed ok. The hi res scans are showing quite a lot of grain actually. Is it the usual case?

That does look to have more apparent grain than you would hope for with HP5 at 400.
Grain will be more apparent with thin, under exposed or under developed negatives or it could be in the scan and subsequent digital processing, how do the negatives look?

Woolsocks · Friday at 3:09 PM

I never understood after "taking a break." That's not a break. 1/2 an hour is a break. It's not just you but there are a lot of users here who say that and it boggles my mind on the faulty logic of the wording, not the user.

Fun image. But where's the rest of the images?

ashishtamhane · Friday at 5:15 PM

zx9 said:
That does look to have more apparent grain than you would hope for with HP5 at 400.
Grain will be more apparent with thin, under exposed or under developed negatives or it could be in the scan and subsequent digital processing, how do the negatives look?

I am yet to get the negatives from the developing shop. Will look up those and check again.

Woolsocks said:
I never understood after "taking a break." That's not a break. 1/2 an hour is a break. It's not just you but there are a lot of users here who say that and it boggles my mind on the faulty logic of the wording, not the user.

Fun image. But where's the rest of the images?

Wow indeed you are correct! Thank you for pointing that out!

They are there but this was one of the better compositions. I will post the others shortly after resizing them.

ashishtamhane · Tuesday at 6:25 PM

Another one from the same session.

swanseamale47 · 2024-11-13T10:35:18+0000

HP5 was my normal everyday film in my press days, often shoot 15 or 20 rolls a day. You could push it if the light was bad, and you could pull it to lower the contrast on bright sunny days. Smashing stuff,

GreenNinja67 · 2024-11-13T10:38:56+0000

Used to use HP5 at Brands Hatch in the 90's in poor weather. Otherwise FP4 was my goto for bike and Touring Car racing.

Got some nice portraits of Dario Franchitti from before he was famous.

Harlequin565 · 2024-11-13T17:08:16+0000

ashishtamhane said:
Being new to film I just randomly picked one whose price seemed ok. The hi res scans are showing quite a lot of grain actually. Is it the usual case?

Late to reply but in my experience, it varies quite considerably with the developer used.

The lab I used had a variant of Rodinal, and when I first started developing I didn't like my HP5 negs at all. When I started chopping and changing developers to see how it affected film, I was quite surprised. HP5 in DDX is beautiful, in Rodinal it looks horrible, and in HC-110 it looks "crunchy". I posted about it a while ago (link)