Model: @caitylacuna
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Category: Photography
Janie
“If you live for other people’s acceptance – you will die from their rejection…”
Legrae
Model: @janiemason__
Whispers of green
Tully is departing our shores, so I wanted to blog another of our shoots before she left.
Thanks for your efforts and patience and beautiful work Tully and hopefully you come back soon.
Model: @tullyaldridgeofficial
- You can see some of Tully’s published work in Issue 47 of Volo Magazine
Take me to the place I love
Sometimes I feel
Like I don’t have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry
I drive on her streets
‘Cause she’s my companion
I walk through her hills
‘Cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie
I don’t ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way
It’s hard to believe
That there’s nobody out there
It’s hard to believe
That I’m all alone
At least I have her love
The city she loves me
Lonely as I am
Together we cry
I don’t ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way
Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away
Model: @you_can_totally_sit_with_us
Shot on Agfa Scala 200 and Tri-X 400
Lyrics: Red Hot Chilli Peppers – “Under the Bridge” , 1991.
Blue Haze
I make no secret I like shooting weird, non conventional films.
Kodak Vericolor Slide Film is exactly one of those films. It was never meant to be shot how I shot it and that’s the challenge.
Originally designed to make slides from negatives its a C41 processed slide film, so it is unique in that regard alone.
The single roll I had was expired in 1997 and I decided to double expose most of the shots just to amp up the “funkyness” of it.
Why do I shoot these films? Mainly because not many people are. The rarity and specific uses of them, precludes a lot of people from shooting them in this way, but I like to push things in ways they weren’t really designed for.
Thanks to my model @caitylacuna
If you have an odd or rare film you’d like to me to shoot, get in touch. I’m happy to give it a whirl…
The Panther’s final fight
This blog is slowly turning into a review of strange and unique films thinly disguised as photoshoots.
It wasn’t really my intention, but since these films will never be reproduced i’m happy to show my results for those interested. I’ll try to incorporate the rolls into a photoshoot somewhere.
Usually I get several rolls of a film, but the Ektachrome Panther P1600x was different. I was given a single roll and since it was E-6 slide film, I really had no intention of ever shooting it. I had never seen it for sale before and people I spoke to about it generally had never used it.
As far as I know it was never refrigerated and expired in the late 90’s. At one stage this film spent several months on the floor of my car. Far from ideal film conditions.
Then I found a lab that did E-6 at decent prices with a great reputation so I thought I’ll have a whirl with it.
I shot it at 400 ISO, and Rewind Photo Lab in Sydney did a great job with it. I honestly expected it to not even have anywhere near the consistency it did.
I really love the “filmy”look it has and have actually made some enquiries to try and source some more.
Thanks to @smartcookiecookie for modelling for me and @rewindphotolab for resurrecting the Panther!
Kodak RPC Film
This blog is definitely more for the film lovers among us. Those that love weird and unique film.
Stuff that’s been dug out of freezers and deceased estates. Long expired and forgotten by most. A mystery box that may leave us ultimately with nothing but photographic regret.
This is the gamble. The thrill of the chase.
Kodak Rapid Process Copy film is exactly the type of weird and experimental film I love.
Its a rare positive transparency black and white film that was designed for use in copying X rays and the like. It was never intended to be shot like I shot it, but that’s why I love it.
Challenging and almost impossible to exposure 100% accurately, its ISO of 0.06 is insane.
I found a forum online from 2002 that discussed this film, and even those members had never shot it.
As almost no cameras meter to 0.06 the following formula was proffered;
“Set the ISO for this film at 25, Open up to a pretty wide aperture, then times the shutter speed by 2000!”
WHAT THE FUCK!
“Ie 1/125 at f/4 becomes 16 seconds at f/4”
On top of this, the film was a slide film and expired in 2001. Easy.
The first roll I played with exposures using the “formula” and found I was overexposing a lot.
Ultimately I settled on shooting it at about f/11 and varying the exposure times as the best way to accurately get close to the correct exposure. I also found this the best way to sit there not having to use a factor calculator to work out how long the shutter needed to be open.
In no way am I holding these up to be great images or anything, but it definitely is a ‘creative’ film in the long exposures it allows with relatively wide apertures.
These images are mostly shot at f/11 for between 15 and 30 seconds.( The hallway one is at wider aperture…I think 5.6 but can’t recall exactly). Colour corrected in PS.
You can see there is some blown highlights so obviously my guessing isn’t an exact science when it comes to exposing this film.
Would I use this film again? Yes definitely. It really does have some great creative applications….when I nail down guessing the exposure 🙂
