Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

The festival yesterday was kind of fun and pretty; I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I had gotten enough sleep the night before and had been hurting less. My objective for the day was met -- please the audience and the folks who asked us there -- so the day goes in the 'win' column. And I found somebody selling dried lavender, and got some cool photos (I'm hoping the infrared ones come out; so far I've only looked at the digital shots of course).

But ow, I'm paying for it today. I'm a wreck, physically. I'd concidered getting dropped off at the drug store last night and walking home from there, as there are a few things I need to pick up (none all that urgently; more that I wanted to cross them off my to-do list), but it's a good thing I didn't try after all. Today hurts badly enough as it is.

Going to 3LF rehearsal tonight could be challenging even if my housemate (whom I'd be catching a ride with) is going tonight.

I'm a little nervous about trying to develop the IR film (Kodak HIE). So far I've only used one developer, and only developed a couple kinds of film (Kodak Tri-X and Ilford HP5 ... and I might have done a roll of TMY or something, but I forget), and I've got to go look up what developer is recommended for HIE. I might just hand it over to the lab I usually use, but if I remember right, he said he hasn't worked with IR film, and the lab that I used to take my IR film (and my extreme high-speed BW film) to has gone out of business because too many of their customers switched to digital. (I was happy with the work both labs did, and continue to be happy with the surviving lab, but the reason I found the now-defunct one in the first place was that the other lab suggested them the first time I went asking about developing IR in Baltimore, and they turned out to be absolute wizards at printing BW from the rather marginal negatives I sometimes handed them.)

I'm also concerned that the film itself may be damaged because it was such an old roll (and I've heard that IR film is more susceptible to age and heat damage than most other film), so the IR I shot yesterday is going to be a real roll of the dice on all fronts (starting with the fact that shooting IR is largely guesswork in the first place because most meters don't measure those wavelengths, and the extra complication that the lens I have that fits the red filter I've got doesn't have an IR focussing mark so I had to guess how much to compensate the focus).