The correct answer of course is 3 pm today. F4S and 18omm f/2.8 ED-AIS @ f/4 with TX @ ASA 200 in D-76 1:1 and scanned with the LS-8000. Right about the time I was ready to start shooting film, I realized I should have grabbed the F2 instead of the F4. The batteries in the F4S were dead as a doornail. The rechargeable batteries I use in them are getting older and don't hold a charge as long as they used to. After a quick trip to an inconvenience store and $12 
on 8 AA alkaline batteries I was back in the fight.
As much as I hate to admit it, I could not have made this image with B&W film without the help of digitization. I dropped the exposure a little, increased the contrast and since the scanner scans the negatives in RGB, it was a simple enough task to turn the image bluish in PS to simulate moonlight . On a much sadder note, both these headstones were broken by vandals a few years ago but were repaired. Look at the death dates on both and that makes it all the more reprehensible. They both existed for well over a century before some misguided kids with way too much time on their hands decided it would be fun to knock them over and break them. If I am not mistaken they were caught but because they were juveniles very little was done to them except reparations for the amount of restoration of the headstones. Personally I think 45 days in the county lock up with the rest of our society's worst would done them some real good.
This is what the scene actually looked like before manipulation:
on 8 AA alkaline batteries I was back in the fight. As much as I hate to admit it, I could not have made this image with B&W film without the help of digitization. I dropped the exposure a little, increased the contrast and since the scanner scans the negatives in RGB, it was a simple enough task to turn the image bluish in PS to simulate moonlight . On a much sadder note, both these headstones were broken by vandals a few years ago but were repaired. Look at the death dates on both and that makes it all the more reprehensible. They both existed for well over a century before some misguided kids with way too much time on their hands decided it would be fun to knock them over and break them. If I am not mistaken they were caught but because they were juveniles very little was done to them except reparations for the amount of restoration of the headstones. Personally I think 45 days in the county lock up with the rest of our society's worst would done them some real good.
This is what the scene actually looked like before manipulation:
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