Week 24 – Rainy Days (and lack of models) Always Gets Me Down – Fujicolor 200 (Expired?)

September 11, 2015

Just a reminder that even though a new roll of film shows up here every week, that doesn't mean that they were all shot sequentially. Excluding last week's entry the majority of this roll was shot maybe 2 or even 3 weeks after the work with The Imperial Opa. Not for lack of trying mind you. Every week I try and lock down someone to shoot with, and usually I'll get a few people who are interested. But rarely can I lock something down 100%.

Mostly I blame my weird schedule where my "weekend" just happens to be at the beginning of everyone else's work week. Therefore it's hard to just find someone I know who is available (and not working a regular job like everyone else). Being a photographer that prefers to shoot people, its very taxing to come up with ways to fill a roll of film with things that aren't people. Also it's harder than I thought to keep photographing the cat and have it be interesting. Hopefully I won't have too many rolls like this.

(and even though I may jinx myself here...I'm hoping future Blake was able to capture some great images in the upcoming weeks both with the models he HOPEFULLY has booked, and Dragoncon).

Now the images themselves this week...something is not quite right and I can't put my finger on it. The negative looked fine, maybe a little bit thin. They scanned well. However when it came time to adjust color things just looked off. It could be any number of things, including chemicals getting exhausted. Anyone out there using the Unicolor C41 kit have any advice? Is my scanner borked or on the wrong settings? Any ideas would be helpful. I'll even include one of the "raw" files at the end of the entry to see if it's just me.

Development Notes:
Standard Process Unicolor C41 Kit
Possibly reaching the end of its life
Scanned and "Color Corrected" using Photoshop

And for any of you wanting to help me troubleshoot what is going on. Here is a link to a raw tiff scan (the file is too big to reliably host here)
https://app.box.com/s/fljganhybev6tdr57gxoikgp0ns69mgd

Week 15c – Morgan (Again) – Kodak Gold 200 (Expired)

June 18, 2015

Roll Count? 28! 28 rolls have been shot as of this update! Over half way through the goal of 52 rolls!

This roll was a planned backup in case the 2 boxes of impossible film just didn't turn out. As you can probably guess since you have seen both of them over the last 2 weeks they worked (mostly).

I personally had to re-shoot Morgan using another expired roll of Gold 200 just to redeem myself after messing up the first one during our first shoot. Although it was expired, I think these turned out much better. There is still a little color cast, but not as bad as it was the first time around.

Also I think I may be coming to the end of the life of my C-41 chemicals. On the later images (on the stairs) it becomes clear that something isn't quite right. I think I may have one or two rolls left before I need to re-up.

Development Notes:
Unicolor C-41 Kit
Standard Development
(I think my chemicals are about ready to be replaced)
Color Corrections in Photoshop

**Unplanned edit! I am actually releasing this blog post a day earlier than I had originally planned. Sorry to anyone who was expecting an update on Friday and got this today instead. Because of how I have IFTTT and such set up I still have to make a few edits every time a blog post goes live. Since I won't be anywhere near a computer tomorrow until later in the day I figured I'd drop it now.**

Week 6b – Self Censorship Project, Experiment – Kodak BW400CN (Expired) (-1 Stop)

February 13, 2015

So I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while. I shoot a lot of nude model photos, it unintentionally has become what I am most known for. And sometimes it just seems like people looking at the photos are looking at the model's "bits and pieces" and not the image as a whole. So I came up with the idea for a project where I purposefully censor myself.

Now this concept is not quite what you are about to see, but this is pretty close. I'm going to keep at it and see what happens.

Development Notes:
Unicolor C41 Kit.
Standard Development Process
Ultra fine tip black Sharpie marker on negative before scan.