Last weekend, Lara and I went to see David Higgs' "Weald" exhibition of platinum printed photos of the Ashdown Forest. It's a beautiful body of work and one which I would recommend anyone within striking distance to make the effort to see, in person.
As the weather forecast was reasonable for this time of year - i.e. relatively mild and low risk of rain - I took a couple of my most recent acquisitions with me to try out. All went reasonably well other than I managed to forget to take my Hasselblad quick release plate and the camera body proved to have a thread to wide for the tripod mount.
Consequently, I was shooting my "new" 503cx with Zeiss / Hasselblad CFT* and 120mm Makro-Planar lenses wide open (f4) and hand held with the fastest shutter speed being 1/60th (but down to 1/15th on a couple of shots) using Ilford XP2 Super rated at ISO 200.
Anyway, with apologies to Donkey (Dave) whose photos were the inspiration and are infinitely better than my feeble attempts, here's the results:
