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See A Stranger T-Shirt Size:XLSometimes I see a stranger and think Tri X 400, push 1 stop. The film photographers brain, caught in the act: you stop seeing a face and start seeing the exposure the contrast, the grain, the way that light would render on black and white film rated a stop faster than the box says. Pushing Tri X 400 one stop means shooting it at 800 and developing longer, trading a little shadow detail for more speed and that hard, grainy, unmistakable look. It is how

and the careers of the people who said film was finished

An aperture

and both will sit motionless for hours waiting for something to happen

just never on the lens itself

and the picture — or the day — suddenly makes sense

and you are close to correctly exposed without ever touching a meter

roll under the car seat

Film came first — the cassette

an upside-down image on ground glass

Expose to the right

learn that

and crawled for the money shot and lived to laugh about it — a tasteful amount of innuendo