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Wednesday, 27 October 2010
More FP-100 Negative Stuff
I have taken to using the method on New55projects Blog as a way to be artistically creative, having just started my foundation course and been give my first project of "Traces and manipulation" I have been having a lot of fun with adapting this method through mainly trial and error. But despite some epic failures here is what I have come up with so far.
The techniques I favoured were
- leaving in bleach over night which appears to start to break down the negative itself
- lightly sanding
- soaking back in lemon juice for half an hour (gave the purple effect) and eroded away the emulsion
- finding discarded tatty negatives hiding behind wardrobes etc.
will be defiantly doing more of this, third from the top I think is the best click it to see it larger
The techniques I favoured were
- leaving in bleach over night which appears to start to break down the negative itself
- lightly sanding
- soaking back in lemon juice for half an hour (gave the purple effect) and eroded away the emulsion
- finding discarded tatty negatives hiding behind wardrobes etc.
will be defiantly doing more of this, third from the top I think is the best click it to see it larger
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Friday, 10 September 2010
Fuji FP-100C Negative Reclamation VS A negative found under my bed
Essentially this post is just to say about the cracking Fuji FP-100C Negative Reclamation process detailed on New55Project's Blog which I have been meaning to try for ages but don't have a scanner capable of scanning negatives so I knocked up this little contraption.
Yes it is a box with some spotlights and a bit of plastic over the top... but it did work!
I mounted my D60 on the tripod and took a picture of the negative from some Fuji Fp 100c reclaimed using the guide above, I tested the method on a quite old negative that I found under my bed coated in dust and a bit scratched up.
After cropping, inverting and colour balance on Photoshop this is what I was left with and do you know what I couldn't be happier I actually love this picture! it reminds me of some of the SX-70 modifications people used to do.
of course there are much easier ways of scanning all kinds of negatives onto your computer and there is a great guide on everything you need to know and how much its going to tear a hole in your pocket here
Yes it is a box with some spotlights and a bit of plastic over the top... but it did work!
I mounted my D60 on the tripod and took a picture of the negative from some Fuji Fp 100c reclaimed using the guide above, I tested the method on a quite old negative that I found under my bed coated in dust and a bit scratched up.
After cropping, inverting and colour balance on Photoshop this is what I was left with and do you know what I couldn't be happier I actually love this picture! it reminds me of some of the SX-70 modifications people used to do.
of course there are much easier ways of scanning all kinds of negatives onto your computer and there is a great guide on everything you need to know and how much its going to tear a hole in your pocket here
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Oh and it has been quite some time hasn't it, but I am back if anyone missed me...
over this summer I have been here there and everywhere and this blog sadly fell to the side in my list of priority's but now as its getting a bit chilly again and people start to fall back onto the interweb I have come back to it with all kinds of bollocks to rant on about.
This week I have mostly been cross processing Agfa CT Precisa 100 which comes out with some quality colours, if not a little blue but I think that is just due to underexposing and leaving the film in a hot tent in Spain for a week.
As a technique cross processing does give you some lovely images but is incredibly unreliable as you are messing with slide film which is sensitive enough to star off with, got some cheap expired boots slide film which I believe is the Fuji emulsion so will xpro some of that and see if the results are very different from the Agfa.
This week I have mostly been cross processing Agfa CT Precisa 100 which comes out with some quality colours, if not a little blue but I think that is just due to underexposing and leaving the film in a hot tent in Spain for a week.
As a technique cross processing does give you some lovely images but is incredibly unreliable as you are messing with slide film which is sensitive enough to star off with, got some cheap expired boots slide film which I believe is the Fuji emulsion so will xpro some of that and see if the results are very different from the Agfa.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Sad Times
Currently off the Blog so I can stress about exams, but during my procrastination I have found some brill stuff that I will share when I finish on the 29th! a'thankyou.
Monday, 31 May 2010
"Polaroid", Who Are You Kidding?
The once great Polaroid has surprisingly gone and sold out again, if you go onto their website you will be greeted with a much more "hip" welcome page featuring shots from there various commercial out of production instant films and in the middle an announcement of the release of the new Polaroid 300, doesn't really take an idiot to realize that its just a re-brand of the Fuji mini 7s and the film is just a re-brand of the Fuji Instax mini film. Yet they have nearly doubled the price of the film and the price of the camera, so you have to wonder what they are trying to achieve here? as the new owners of Polaroid have received very little respect from instant film lovers. Why would we pay more to see the brand on a Fuji camera?
It is however some what satisfying if not frustrating to see Polaroid getting back in to the instant market, with stories flying about of Polaroid making a new camera for The Impossible Projects films I'm excited to see what might be coming soon! hopefully not another Fuji clone.
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