Don’t be impatient when drying film… Continue reading “Mistakes in at-home development, part 2”
Mistakes in at-home development, part 1
With the first attempt at at-home c-41 development, I made the error of failing to fill the tank all the way, with some interesting-ish and potential-filled results.
With the second attempt, though, my errors were somewhat more severe, and with somewhat less-interesting results Continue reading “Mistakes in at-home development, part 1”
the Lomo LC-A: a review
Some months ago (16 or 17, now, I guess) I was one of 3,379 people to back Lomography’s Kickstarter project to build a Petzval lens for 35mm cameras.
I received that lens some time ago and made some fun pictures with it; I look forward to making some more. But that’s not what this post is about.
To thank me for my support, Lomography sent a decent coupon (30% maybe) that I didn’t really plan to use—I had enough toys that I rarely played with already—but when their 2013 holiday sales rolled around, I decided to jump in, and ended up grabbing a Refurbished Lomo LC-A and several rolls of film for around $150, quite a deal compared to the usual asking price.
I took my time with the first roll, and finally shot through it while travelling to and from Arkansas to visit Mom in mid December 2013. Continue reading “the Lomo LC-A: a review”
Compare/Contrast (1)
One idea I had for something fun to play around with this year is to process some film shots with some of the apps on the phone. So I created a folder to sync between computer and phone, and just tried one, with what seems to be interesting results…
Here’s the recently-posted original:
And here’s a version that took a quick trip through Snapseed:
The second is a bit garish, too contrasty, too structured, to be sure, but the skin color is much closer to correct, and there’s a bit more detail that works well.
Some of the techniques for converting negatives in Lightroom I read suggested to save the converted and white-balance corrected file as a tiff, and then import and process the tiff. Most authors and commenters suggested this seemingly only to make the sliders work the correct way. (When you invert negatives in Lightroom, white becomes black, shadows become highlights, orange becomes blue, etc.)
But if I can do this with a jpg and the phone, I wonder what I could get out of a tiff and Lightroom? I’m going to have to give it a shot.
If you have any thoughts, please share them! Continue reading “Compare/Contrast (1)”
Developing C-41 At Home, part 2
As mentioned earlier, I didn’t have quite enough chemicals in the tank to cover the top-most roll. Thankfully, there was plenty to develop the bottom roll, so I didn’t make much in the way of developing errors.
The big problem I had with this one (and this is an ongoing problem): Hard Water.
Developing C-41 At Home, part 1
After my last experience with film developing at my local pharmacy, I was a bit wary about taking film anywhere. I did some research and found that many places—including Walmart and virtually any store that has to send off your film to be developed—no longer return negatives. Continue reading “Developing C-41 At Home, part 1”
Dua for forgiveness and mercy
We all need it from time to time:
وَقُل رَّبِّ اغْفِرْ وَارْحَمْ وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الرَّاحِمِينَ
rabbighfir warham wa-anta khayru arrahimeen
My Lord (rabb), forgive (igfir) and (wa) have mercy (arham), and (wa) You are (anta) the best (khayru) of the merciful (arrahimeen).
Surah Al-Mu’minūn, ayat 118 Continue reading “Dua for forgiveness and mercy”
