Friday, July 23, 2010

Color or Colour ::: Chromogenic development

Japan School Yard, Kobe

Run with it.

When it comes to developing film, there is a moment that no one can take away from me.  This picture is one of those moments that I look forward to.  When light leaks decides to seep in to negatives and spread its permanent disease of beautiful proportions. Colors change, colors reappear and become pastel.  

I wish all of you could see the high resolution of this negative because the things that go on from a molecular level is truly a beautiful phenomena.  If you look very closely at the children in the school yard, you can see that their shorts are red! Their faces become merely a block formation of tan!  These chemical reactions to me was the most amazing part.  The fact that even from this distance, being so far away and using a plastic camera (with a plastic lens) that this color decided to shine through.  Even with damage like this done to a negative, it survives a near death with all of the light leaks!







1 comments:

  1. Hambone! This is totally rad Sam! Oh the little miracles of flim!

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