I decided to make a short trip up to the Oregon coast recently to take some photos.
I woke up around 5am PST in Astoria, OR to try and get some sunrise shots on the coast and was greeted with a thick layer of fog instead. I decided to shoot some Kodak TMAX P3200 at box speed to try and bring out some contrast (lacking because of the fog) while still getting some of that nice cubic T-Grain. I think it turned out pretty nice, although the grain may be a bit much even for me.
Astoria-Megler Bridge (TMAX P3200 @ 3200)
Next I headed over to Fort Stevens State Park and loaded up some Kodak Tri-X at box speed.
Wreck of the Peter Iredale (Tri-X @ 400)
Looking back I think I like this level of contrast/grain better than the TMAX. Great punchy blacks in a scene that was almost all middle gray, while not losing any shadow detail. Even the reflection in the water looks nice. I was a little worried about my metering this morning as I was running a KEKS KM02 averaging meter. For some of these shots I tried my best to use the KM02 as a spot meter by walking up to the ship and taking a reading of it, just so that the meter wouldn’t get fooled by the white fog and try to bring that down to middle gray, underexposing the scene.
Cannon Beach (TMAX 400 @ 400)
Cannon Beach (Tri-X @ 400)
Next I shot a couple of rolls at Cannon Beach, some Tri-X @ 400 and some TMAX 400 @ 400. I think this is once again proving to me why Tri-X is my favorite B&W stock.