Walked out of BACKROOMS and immediately got on my knock off Todd Hido business 😅 That web series/movie feels very inspired by Hido's work, though I'm not sure Kane Parsons even knows who Todd Hido is.
Can't remember what these were shot at. They were either an 1/8 or a 1/15th of a second, handheld, on Cinestill 800T wide open on a Voigtlander 35mm F1/.5.
I keep going back to the picture of Daisy and how the enhanced grain gives it the look of a painting by the pointillism painter Geroges Seurat. The grain adds a lot to the photo and makes it look like a work on fabric.
I could have very easily gotten this image with a roll of heavily expired film from the 1950s but no, I had to work for it. This is Washi Y, a panchromatic film emulsion coated onto washi paper by a one-man operation in western France. It can be shot at ISO 100, which I did, in my Diana camera.
I developed it in an old Kodacraft tank (Rodinal 1:25 for 9 minutes). My previous roll of washi film got incredibly twisted and wrinkled as it dried, making it almost impossible to scan, so for this roll I decided to cut the negatives while wet and dry them in an improvised herbarium press. Big mistake (which I could have foreseen): the film got stuck to the blotting paper as it dried. I was able to peel it off but a lot of paper was stuck to the film. So I resoaked the film in water, long enough to loosen the stuck paper so I could scrape it off with my fingernail. Then I hung the negatives to dry just enough so they were still damp and not wrinkled, then taped them by the edges to an acrylic board to dry.
All that work for this result, which I do kind of like although it was the only usable image from the roll of 16 shots. I think instead of Washi Y I will call this film Washi, Why?
_jim_ wrote:
All three of the peace sign pose pics are great! So much personality.
She's great and that is her pose - she rarely does anything else. Out of all 3 of my kids shes the only one that seems to have much interest in photography so we go on photo walks together a lot and I use that time to get lots of photos of her I'm trying to get my son into it too but he's not nearly as eager as she is.
Desmolicious wrote:
Excellent stuff! You now have to be a regular poster. Demz da roolz.
Hah, I'll try to do my best. We'll see how well film sticks to me as a hobby.
madNbad wrote:
Welcome to the slippery slope!
Jeez, I know it. I just started and already talked myself into buying a few film bodies. They're a bit addicting, maybe partially due to them seeming less expensive to me compared to all the digital cameras I've bought. I've got to stop looking at the Buy/Sale page here.
My Nikon 35mm f2 AF-D lens failed for the second time. The oily blades came back a couple of years after I had it repaired. A real shame because I really liked that lens, and the size was great.
But I threw in the towel instead of repairing it again and sold it 'As Is' w full disclosure of the oilyness.
One reason was that I have the Sigma Art lenses, and so this will make me use them. I had not really touched them as they are unpleasantly large vs the AF-D, but well... just suck it up Nancy.
Of course optically they are spectacular. Here w the F6 @ 1.4 on Fojak 200.
bjhurley wrote:
I could have very easily gotten this image with a roll of heavily expired film from the 1950s but no, I had to work for it. This is Washi Y, a panchromatic film emulsion coated onto washi paper by a one-man operation in western France. It can be shot at ISO 100, which I did, in my Diana camera.
I developed it in an old Kodacraft tank (Rodinal 1:25 for 9 minutes). My previous roll of washi film got incredibly twisted and wrinkled as it dried, making it almost impossible to scan, so for this roll I decided to cut the negatives while wet and dry them in an improvised herbarium press. Big mistake (which I could have foreseen): the film got stuck to the blotting paper as it dried. I was able to peel it off but a lot of paper was stuck to the film. So I resoaked the film in water, long enough to loosen the stuck paper so I could scrape it off with my fingernail. Then I hung the negatives to dry just enough so they were still damp and not wrinkled, then taped them by the edges to an acrylic board to dry.
All that work for this result, which I do kind of like although it was the only usable image from the roll of 16 shots. I think instead of Washi Y I will call this film Washi, Why?
I'm trying to get my son into it too but he's not nearly as eager as she is.
