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Categories: all aviation bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
Tue, 16 Feb 2010I know you're just dying to see it.
Note the yellow stain along the bottom edge. I'm pretty sure that's oxidization from being old. Never a good thing. And here it is inverted and contrast-enhanced (but nowhere near as contrast-enhanced as the first one):
So, more developer time is good. Fresh film will be even better. Posted at 22:45 permanent link category: /misc I developed the second exposure from our epic four-shot 5x7 photo shoot on the 31st. The first exposure was pretty milquetoast, as far as contrast went, so I went from 11 minutes to 15 minutes in the developer. It definitely made a difference, but the contrast still seemed weird. In fact, once I looked closely, I realized that the bits of the film which were covered up by the film holder were... well, kinda foggy. Uh-oh, thought I. 10 year old film. I might be dealing with film that's just past its use-by date. So I developed an unexposed sheet of film, to see if the film right out of the box was foggy and gross, or whether it was somewhere else in the process (such as handling, the film holder, light leaks in the camera, etc.) that it was getting fogged. So, this is the completely unexposed film:
That's pretty much exactly what it's not supposed to look like. Note the even darkness (it should be nearly glass-clear), plus the slight yellowish fringe around the edge. Oh well, I guess that 10 year old film is junk. I'll still process the other two exposures, because they're salvageable, but I know I'll get much better results with fresh film. Well, this is why I wanted to do a throw-away photo shoot first. Posted at 21:51 permanent link category: /misc I walked out the door to head up for lunch today, and stopped in my tracks. Between the towering rooflines of the buildings around me, I could see a strip of sky, and it was pretty stunning, bright blue and big puffy clouds. It was clearly a day on which I needed to bring a camera with me. So I did. And when I got to the cherry tree, I knew just what needed to happen. These were photographed near the PCC store in Fremont.
The photos are unretouched, except for a slight bump in exposure and exposure offset, which has the effect of increasing contrast and dynamic range. In Photoshop, look under Image > Adjustments > Exposure (at least in CS4). Posted at 14:40 permanent link category: /misc Categories: all aviation gadgets misc motorcycle theater Written by Ian Johnston. Software is Blosxom. Questions? Please mail me at reaper at obairlann dot net. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
