DMY Photography - March 2012

This month is a sequence of images from Downtown America - Volume 1, taken in 2011. The reason for taking them was to try and put some feeling back into photography. So often these days we see near on perfect images which Dave believes are becoming too sterile and contrived, whilst he embraces the digital world he also believes we are loosing the feeling we portrayed in the darkroom days.

This month's pictures were taken with a digital camera, with the emphasis of only being able to crop, dodge and burn as he did in the darkroom. The images were then produced in the darkroom on silver gelatin paper using a digitally produced negative in the hope of being able to portray the atmosphere of the wonderful pictures taken in yesteryears, when trees leaned over, roads were not straight,  buildings were out of proportion and people and cars were cut in two.

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XPRO2 - Kodak Elite Chrome 100

Cross processing (sometimes abbreviated to X-pro) is the procedure of deliberately processing film in a chemicals intended for a different type of film. The two main methods of cross processing involve developing a slide film in C41, or colour negative film in E6. The result is an unpredictable range of colours, and is often used by Lomographers.

These images were taken on my granddad’s old Kodak Retinette IB, a 35mm viewfinder camera which was made between 1963 - 1966. The camera is in near-mint condition, so I ran another film through it - this time Kodak Elite Chrome 100. Most of these images were taken during my half-term trip to North Devon with my uncle before being cross-processed at a nearby photo lab. The negatives were then scanned with a Plustek 7400 at 3600dpi.

 

Film 22

The final black and white roll of film I had exposed during my half-term trip to Devon with my uncle, also featuring a few images from the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
Canon EOS 600 loaded with Kodak T-Max 100. Developed in ID-11, 1+3, 25° for 10:40 minutes. Scanned with a Plustek OpticFilm 7400 at 3600dpi.

Film 21

The second of five (3 black & white) that I had exposed during my half-term trip to Devon with my aunt and uncle. The following set of images was taken with a Horizon Perfekt, a panoramic camera with a swinging lens. Scanning was difficult, but I managed to scan two separate frames before stitching them.

Horizon Perfekt loaded with Ilford Delta 100, developed in ID-11, 1+3, 25° for 13:20 minutes. Scanned with a Plustek OpticFilm 7400 at 3600dpi.

Film 20

The first of five rolls (3 black & white) I had exposed on my half-term trip to Devon with my uncle.

Canon EOS 600 loaded with Ilford PAN 400 (exposed for ISO 200), developed in ID-11, 1+3, 25° for 12 minutes. Scanned with a Plustek OpticFilm 7400 at 3600dpi.