Since its fall now in my area, that means its time to harvest the corn that has been growing all summer. Finding farmers at work can be difficult since they run on their own time. We stopped at the seed shop at around five o'clock to ask where they might be harvesting at and the clerk said they were headed to the west field the last she heard this morning. So we made our way down the winding country roads to see what we could find. There were several combines working the fields along with a Case Quadtrac Tractor which was pulling a hopper to help with unloading. These photos were shot with TRI-X 400 with standard development in D76. Using this developer at standard time gives a low contrast negative which is perfect for the darkroom being as you can use high contrast paper when printing. For these images I scanned them with a DSLR which gives an image that I find lacking in contrast and editing on the digital scan does not do the same as using high contrast paper. In the future I will try some other developers. Right now I am considering Rodinal or Kodak HC-110 these developers give a higher contrast under normal development time but so does pushing film. I liked the look of pushed TRI-X 400 but experimentation is needed.
A Case Quadtrac pulls a hopper across a field being harvested by two combines in rural Henderson Kentucky.
A John Deer tractor pulling a hopper is being loaded by a combine.