The photos in Gallery Brittany were made in September 2018 mainly on the peninsula of Crozon in the Departement Finistere. (Exception is the first frame of Fort la Latte). Camera was the Plaubel PL69 mainly with the 47, 135, and 270 mm lenses. Film was Ilford FP4 developed in Rodinal.
Weather conditions were mostly fine; however, on some days the wind was so strong that even the heavy tripod was shaking.
The location from where i took the Fort la Latte photo down by the beach was a little hard to reach with the equipment, but worth to try. The weather was changing fast and after my set up was finished, the sun was gone. When it reappeared, people were sitting on the rocks by the water right in the middle of the scene and between their leaving and the final vanishing of the sun was only a short moment for releasing the shutter.
I visited the German Battery M.K.B. de Kerbonn of the Atlantic Wall a couple of times. The best light was on one late sunny evening which allowed among others the photo of the spalling of the side of one bunker from gunshots or grenades.
The photo of the Ruin of Saint-Pol-Roux Manor was an ordeal. The set up with the late afternoon sun with a raised front standard was straight forward, after I had been there already earlier but at that time with the bad lighting. However, wrong cloud position, tourists and a professional photographer shooting wedding pictures at the scene were all in the way…
The term d&b in the description of individual frames of the gallery stands for “dodging and burning”
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