Krueger Photography

Huntsville Alabama

All these images are scans of 8×10 RC darkroom prints made on Ilford Cooltone, Kentmere VC Select, or Adorama branded papers developed in Dektol or D72. For exhibition prints, I use FB paper. These pictures go back a few years, with one going as far back as 1990. I scanned about 250 prints from a total of 750 going back as far as September 2021. Forty-two of those are posted in this new Huntsville Alabama gallery. There are many more boxes going back many years, so I’ll probably add more pictures from local expeditions.

All of the pictures in the Huntsville Alabama Gallery have embedded IPTC Title and Description metadata that is displayed overlaying the image when you click on the info button. I tried to include technical aspects of the image (camera, lens, film and developer info) in the description, while the title provides basic subject matter info, including the month and year the photo was taken. For outings where I used the F6, I was able to include shutter speed, aperture, and focal length info which is imprinted between frames on the film and also downloadable using the Promote Systems Meta35. At the time I wrote the descriptions, I didn’t know the new gallery plugin would also display EXIF metadata.

You’ll notice that I like pretty clouds on a darkish sky, so almost all the pictures that include the sky are shot through a red filter, often combined with a polarizer. I don’t record exact filter configurations, so if a polarizer isn’t specified, it doesn’t mean I didn’t use one for that image. Brace for a lot of churches and banks. They seem to be the most photogenic buildings in Huntsville. In addition to the 42 images I uploaded here, I scanned another 200+ images from local outings that I plan to upload to my Cityshadows.org website. I will probably include less metadata with them since it’s quite time consuming.