SteveMcClelland

Slowly but surely I am thinning out the groups which I no longer seem to fit into.  I have decided if  even a single  vote is required for my image to be admitted, I am probably in the wrong group and am dropping membership in that group along with the watch on it. I think that the unrestricted groups are most likely the only ones I will support with submissions/ and watch besides my friends galleries. If it gets down to viewing only the unrestricted groups images, I think that it would be a better  selection than some elitist group with a narrow focus. I think that when other people decide when someone's images are good enough to be include

Color will be fading out in my gallery as I shift back to my true love of Black and White images. You may see some seasonal color as the mood strikes me but mostly this place is going dark! !

Standby for more details but pretty much anything goes in this series! 1. Using a B&W Orange foliage filter on color shots, really brings out the green and gives the images an overall warm tint to anything not green. 2. Cross Developing Kodak BW400 CN film using Kodak D-76 B&W Developer: The film is actually  a C-41 color negative film which is normally developed in the same chemicals as color film. It gives some interesting color effects when scanned as color negatives but is fairly common looking scanned as a B&W negative. If you want to try this yourself, the D-76 is a 1:1 mixture at 17 minutes. I used "once used" D-76 of a 1:1 mixture a