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Meerkat at Southend Sealife Adventure and Aquarium
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Terry S


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Registered: December 2011
Location: Southend on Sea, Essex, England, UK
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This months print was taken at at the local Sealife Adventure and Aquarium complex in Southend, where I managed to catch a meerkat looking up at a plane going overhead. It was taken on a roll of HP5+, in my compact(?) camera, an Olympus AZ210 Superzoom, which I haven't used for a while. It's a great camera, but lacking on the zoom front, so a slight crop had to be made when printing.


The rest of the film was taken on various days out and weekends away from the last new year onwards and the contact sheet shows a good number of possible prints to be made.


The paper used was an old box of Jessops paper, bought as some batches were said to lith, of which I'm still to find out. The aging has given the paper a VERY warm tone, which I quite like.


The film was developed in the last of a home mixed batch of D72 / ID11, which produced some quite over developed negatives for some reason, as mentioned in a thread on FADU. In the darkroom my RH Designs Analyser recommended a filter one grade below grade 0 (!), so grade 0 had to suffice.
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Keywords: Southend, meerkat, Olympus AZ210 Superzoom, hp5+, home mixed D76 / ID11
Film make, size & rating:: Ilford 35mm HP5+
Film developer & temp:: Home mixed D76 / ID11
Lens Focal Length, aperture: Mini zoom at about 80mm
Tripod used Y or N:: No
Paper:: Old pack of Jessops RC glossy
Paper developer & temp:: Ilford MG

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BuzzNL

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Sun, 1, May, 2022 11:44am

I like it Terry, the warm tone of the paper fits this image nicely!
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Terry S
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Registered: December 2011
Location: Southend on Sea, Essex, England, UK
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Thu, 5, May, 2022 12:31pm

Thanks Buzz, I agree.


As the negative was overdeveloped, I couldn't believe it when the meter said to use a grade BELOW grade 0! I've never had to go below grade 2 before now and looking at examples in Ilford's books for grade 0 prints, I was expecting a very washed out, low contrast print. The end result surprised me to say the least. Smile


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Sun, 8, May, 2022 8:55am

Hats off for pulling this so well given the circumstances. What a great subject, made me smile.
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