Thursday, September 20, 2007

Ok don't stop reading this blog...but if you've ever thought of learning a little something about film photography, Justin ouellette has just reposted an updated post on how to develop your own films at home for sub $50 at www.chromogenic.com/verba.

Make heads towards www.2point8.whileseated.org for more interesting bits on street photography. The guy's managed to compile some old interviews of Gary Winogrand and the sorts

Friday, September 07, 2007

Lo-Fi Digitizing of color negatives


When I first started shooting B/W film, digitizing negatives was
a fun,awesome, quickie, cheap way of seeing the result of my work.
I would set up a digital camera to shoot the negatives against
my laptop screen, then import it into photoshop and invert it.
2 months ago I returned to my hometown (sabah) and found heaps
of old film that I used to shoot during my days as a kid. But I couldn't
find the prints. So I tried converting the negative. but you get this nasty
blue tint on it because of the color negative's orange tint.
I gave up. Every now and then I'd go back and give it another go.
Eventually...I managed to neutralize the blue tint...quite fulfilling to see
that "digital-color-print-negative". The two negatives above
were one's I discovered the shop had left out during its printing. What a
pain.