My (failed) Redscale experiment
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My (failed) Redscale experiment
I had an old roll of expired Kodak Gold 800 which I swore I was going to throw out, but I decided to experiment with it instead. I decided to shoot it redscale, which is a fancy way of saying shooting the film backwards.
The base layer of C-41 colour film is a reddish-orange colour and by shooting the film backwards it essentially applies a red filter to the pictures but also exposed on the layers in the wrong order.
I read that I should overexpose by about a stop do I transferred the film into a 400 ISO canister but my shots didn't turn out, there's almost no info on the negs. This could be due to a few things, expired film, overexposing too much or improper loading into the canister (the room I did it in wasn't completely light-tight, but I tried my best to shield the film).
I'll post some examples shortly, but they didn't really turn out.
The base layer of C-41 colour film is a reddish-orange colour and by shooting the film backwards it essentially applies a red filter to the pictures but also exposed on the layers in the wrong order.
I read that I should overexpose by about a stop do I transferred the film into a 400 ISO canister but my shots didn't turn out, there's almost no info on the negs. This could be due to a few things, expired film, overexposing too much or improper loading into the canister (the room I did it in wasn't completely light-tight, but I tried my best to shield the film).
I'll post some examples shortly, but they didn't really turn out.
Re: My (failed) Redscale experiment
Here's some photos. It's not improper metering due to being in the snow because the interiors came out the same way.
Re: My (failed) Redscale experiment
After seeing the shots on the wiki page it looks like they could have turned out fairly cool. Are these slides stuck together (each shot -- they just seem disjointed for me knowing the areas - especially the Golden Dragon).
I somewhat like how funky they look like this if they would have just turned out a bit more - well they work for all but the shot of your daughter (my assumption).
I somewhat like how funky they look like this if they would have just turned out a bit more - well they work for all but the shot of your daughter (my assumption).
Cujo- Posts : 299
Join date : 2008-02-24
Location : SSM
Re: My (failed) Redscale experiment
Yah, they're 2 shots together on each row. I don't think I'll waste another roll on it, there's a few of my daughter that I look at and go "damn, too bad I didn't just shoot this straight"
Re: My (failed) Redscale experiment
When I first saw the thread, I assumed that you got a Redscale Elmar for your Bessa, which won't collapse fully into the camera body because of the metal shutter. It can collapse partially with a help of a stop using rubber grommets - Home Depot has rubber grommets that fit the lens barrel perfectly.
Anyway, some heavy fogging going on there. Could be the expired film (how old is it?) or perhaps a light leak when tranfering film from one cannister to another.
Anyway, some heavy fogging going on there. Could be the expired film (how old is it?) or perhaps a light leak when tranfering film from one cannister to another.
Nando- Posts : 940
Join date : 2008-01-13
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Re: My (failed) Redscale experiment
Nando wrote:Anyway, some heavy fogging going on there. Could be the expired film (how old is it?) or perhaps a light leak when tranfering film from one cannister to another.
Probably a bit of both. We have a light-tight room at work, not sure why I didn't do it in there. The film was about 5 years out.
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