Colin Dullaghan's photos with the keyword: stand process

As a gift to my sister, I promised to photograph her son. Of the ten shots on the roll from that day, this was my favorite. A lot of credit, though, should really go to Grayson's grandma, who elicited this smile as she crouched just to my left. Baby photography is hard! Technical notes: Wanting to use natural light, I loaded a roll of Ilford Delta 3200 in the Mamiya RB67. For a narrow depth of field and flattering effect, I used a 180mm lens. Even with the fast film, I had trouble shooting above 1/30th of a second in the window light. (Another surprise was a side effect of the low-light setting: His pupils were almost completely dilated! I'm not sure why I didn't anticipate that. In a couple of the pictures, the whites of his eyes weren't visible at all, leading my wife to observe, "Um, he kind of looks like a puppet.") The biggest thing I learned from this, though, was that Ilford 3200 should really be shot at ISO 800, or so, unless you're using a special developer. I used my usual 1+100 Rodinal, and got thin negatives with tons of grain. Ah well, I kind of like the effect -- or, at least, I've convinced myself that I do. At any rate, unless I get that special developer, I now know of no way to shoot portraits in room light with an RB67. Which is kind of disappointing. The camera's so versatile, I've always told myself that there's nothing it can't do besides fit in your pocket!

How many years back would you have to go to have people, you know, looking *out* at the farm?

Telescope-looking kaleidoscope in Three Oaks, Michigan.

This Labor Day, we got to hang out with my wife's great uncles, who are indeed great. As I recall, I set the Olympus IS-1 to overexpose by a couple of stops, since the afternoon was bright and I was shooting from the garage, but I also think my experiment of mixing Xtol with Rodinal in the development helped give this the smooth-but-contrasty look I'm seeing here. I like it.

I really can't say what happened to make this so dramatically underexposed. Other shots on the same roll came out fine. But this one was my favorite.

Stumbled across this little protected area near Broad Ripple in Indianapolis. Nice work protecting it, Indianapolis!

What's summer without a sprinkler?

Here you don't even have to hold up the rod!

This old, "UG" Ilex Acu-Veriwide, which seems to be an Angulon clone, is still comfortably wide even when used with the Calumet C2 rollfilm back. Oh, and I loved the morning light streaming in on my in-laws' dog here.

This Caltar 210 lens, while absurdly sharp and wonderful, seems to result in an awfully narrow viewing angle on my 4x5. Using it with a 6x7 rollfilm back makes it downright intimate!