With the lack of any real shooting this week, I decided it would be good to look back in the archives and see what was there. So here you go: a fun abstract, shot at Tha Grigsby back in June 2011 and processed today.
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Digitizing Film Without a Scanner (pt. 3)
And it was close, but no cigar… As you flip through the pictures below, note a couple of things: 1) the warp in the film; 2) the focus (or lack thereof); 3) the color. So my cardboard-and-tape film duplicating contraption failed to keep the film flat. Additionally, it was just a bit shy of the …
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Digitizing Film Without a Scanner (pt. 2)
So yesterday, I went through the rationale for this project (apologies for the long-windedness of that article), and the first evening of tests. Today, we’ll look at some examples from my first attempts with 35mm color negatives and their foibles. While hunting through my film archives, I came across a color roll that I didn’t …
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Digitizing Film Without a Scanner (pt. 1)
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Hair Studies, part 4 (2)
Hair Studies, part 4 (1)
In the last week of testing/playing with Olympus C-5050, again with the “macro” filter. There’s something about this that feels very 1970s to me. I’m not sure what it is. Maybe the slightly desaturated color, maybe the mix of browns and blues, with just that hint of purple and orange, maybe the slightly off-kilter …
