Shooting film while hiking - Ilford XP2 Super 400

And a few photos taken while hiking at National Park Dwingelderveld in the Netherlands
Specs:
Canon Eos 1V with Canon EF 24-105 F4L IS USM and this camera was loaded with Ilford XP2 Super 400
Developed back at home with Cinestill Cs41

Very interesting shots with a nice calm atmosphere and lots of grain. I feel like it works particularly well in these two. Have you ever tried developing a grain-only image (I don't know enough about the technique to say if a even bright or completely dark image would be better...), scanning it and use it as a texture in photoshop? I'm not the biggest fan of artificial noise or film-simulations, if overdone, but I feel like there could be interesting opportunities for that from time to time.

Never have done something like that and think I'll never do 😁
If i want a picture with grain I'll just shoot analog (color and or B/W) so I don't need to fiddle with artificial grain/noise or those simulations 😋

Digital and also with film scanning I almost do no editing at all, (no photoshop)

Yeah, I get it... it's really something completely different! The couple of instances where I like working with texture is where I want to use it for part of the image only, which pretty much isn't possible with real grain.

Good classic B&W shots here.

What made you choose XPII over a normal monochrome film like Tmax?

@NCV I'm not a Kodak fan so to say, always went for Fuijfilm if possible for Color film and mostly Ilford/Kentmere/Harman for B/W
And the Kodak film prices are higher than I like.
Normally I would go for the normal (not C41) B/W film but still have some almost expired XP2 left,
Like to use C41 B/W and color on our holidays so it can be processed locally so I don't have to take unprocessed film back home 😊

May I ask what C41 means, what's unique about it? I've stumbled upon the term a couple of times (some minilabs were able to process is, some weren't) but had no idea why it was a relevant differentiator.

Various films require a different set of chemicals to process them. C41 is the designation of a Kodak chemistry for colour negative films. It was quite widely adopted and became something of a standard. Silver-containing monochrome films required an entirely different processing approach and chemistry. XP2 was unusual (unique?) in being a silver-free monochrome film which could be developed in C41 chemicals, thus making it a little more environmentally friendly and allowing it to be processed in mini labs alongside colour negative films. That said, I never liked it…