Experimented with developing a kodak color film in normal black and white chemistry (D-76, at 20 degrees for 9:30 minutes) with a little home bleach after the fixing stage. The negatives came out denser when compared to otherwise properly developed color film. Shot with a medium format Yashica D; the 35 mm was balanced in the middle of the camera's back.

Straight inversion of color negs, black points set accordingly from curves function.

Straight inversion without setting black point.

Woke up this morning to find the negatives had dried quite
nicely without much obvious watermarks/dust. Hung this neg over
my white laptop screen, shot it and inverted it. Looks fairly
low in contrast, i suspect the contacts prints should look nicer...

Success! well as far as developing negatives
are concerned. 4:18am. time to sleep.

Making up D76

cooling the developer temperature to 20 degrees. I gave up waiting
and went with 25 degrees. I suspect the thermometer wasn't
very accurate either.

The wash

Note to self: maybe wear gloves next time. Hands starting to feel unsually dry. Hmmm.

30 minute frustration

Bloody long backing papers

"get in there you bitch"

I can only phantom the joy of seeing your prints "develop"
in the developing bath after overcoming a half hour of mega frustration
trying to load my roll film onto the developing reel.
It started when I removed the roll in the dark, and suddenly
I couldn't tell which was head and tail. The harder bit was
telling which was film and which was backing paper. I thought
what I was feeling felt utterly weird; unfilm like texture...but the piece
of backing material was so long, I was going..shit that's gotta be the film.
So I spent 2o mins trying to load the stupid backing into the reel..which is virtually
impossible. Until I decided to scavange through the whole
role did I come accross something that felt more like film. Loading
took 5 minutes from then. Joy.
Now, onto developing.

someone help...I'm seeing doubles...

So you want to shoot a nightclub scene, or any action scene with supernatural low ambient lighting? here are some of your options...

a) you don't.
b) you use that magic green button
c) you play around with different color balance, keep your noise level down,
sacrifice sharpness and play around with your flash strength

The ones below were shot at ISO 200 with "shade" as white balance
and a slow/rear flash sync ( basically flash that fires at the end of the
exposure and superimposes a sharp image over all that handshake motion)

Aperture Priority, 2.5" with Manual Flash at about 1/4th strength,
but, with an ISO of 800 that explains the short shutter speed
and blown highlights. Though it renders cathy quite cute as a
one of those comic character drawn without a nose though,lol

Ok.- ISO was too high so I dialed down to 200.
There goes 10" of my life, and Steven's and Cathy's.
Manual flash 1/4th strength at largest aperture. Good
thing about the hand shake and motion blurring is
that it rendered a soft-ish look with hard lighting? Uber coolism.

a 6" shot. Anyone see the ghost on the lady's shoulder?

-all shots straight from camera.

F8, 1/100s at iso 200. 3 Steps
below S-16, overcast 5pm, with
custom white balance of the
lady's top. No Levels/Curves adjustments.
Nikon D50, (sRGB I)

YC testing out the SB-600
on the Yashica D. Turns out the bodies flash
holder wasn't sturdy enough to support the weight

Me attempting to load a Kodak Tmax 100, before
reading the following "load in subdued light".

Loading film into camera under "subdued" light. Hey it was
12 noon at the park, where else was I going to find subdued light??

day 1; Testing the Yashica D with Kodak Tmax 100.
Above, a nice red house just 5 minutes walk from
my place.

Yashica Modded Nikkor AF-S 18-55mm

Jordan X, spotted on his 1995 comeback from retirement,
although he failed to bring the Bulls past the Orlando magic
at the conference finals. They came back the following year,
storming through the regular season with a crunching 72-10 record
finishing off the Seattle Sonics 4-2.

The morning 10 boxes arrived in my front door

Unsalted baked beans. Yuck

Lampster

Overture

gas heater