Still Life - Oil Can

As y'all know, since I'm still kind of housebound, I'm exploring the intimate world of Still Life.  Fortunately, thanks to good old mum, I've a ton of stuff to amuse myself with.  Like this old oil can, for example:

Oil Can, 2020.  Old FP4+ on Barclay fixed grade paper

I acquired some old FP4+ film a while back - no date on it, but from the packaging I would say at least 15 years old.  No idea how it was stored, but I doubt very much it was in a fridge.  Anyway, in RO9 at 1:25 dilution for 9 minutes and it came out looking as fresh as anything, if a bit harder to flatten.

I had loaded it in the 'Blad and set this oil can up to photograph.  It's actually a dark red in colour, so I used a deep red filter to lighten the tone somewhat.  Lighting was natural light from a side window (it's all set up in the garage) and I also used a Softar 1 filter.  The softar was designed to take away some of the insane sharpness you can get with the Zeiss lenses (yes, I know - the irony of spending a fortune on sharp glass and then using a soft filter) and was particularly welcome for portraits.  I was rating the FP4 at 80iso and exposure was around the 1-2 seconds. 

I was intrigued how the Softar would work in a Still Life setting - it did the job rather well, I thought.  If anything ,the halo of light around the handle is slightly more pronounced in the print than this scan.