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Reflecting on Afghanistan, 2006
Today, September 11, was a day of service to the local community. Â A group of Americans and Indians did some cleanup, painting, and entertaining of children at a local school for the mentally handicapped. Â The idea was to get out and do something for the needy, either in honor of those who lost their lives…
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Success! Processing B & W Film for the First Time
This weekend, I set out to try and cut the expenses for my hobby a bit by learning to process the film myself. I ordered the chemicals for both black/white and color film processing a few weeks ago, along with a developing tank from the 1950s I picked up on eBay for 3 bucks. The…
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Preparing to Process my Own Film for the First Time
It has been about seven months since I started fooling around with film photography again, after a break of decades.  My daughter suggested we try and load up an old folder we had picked up years ago at a flea market in Belgium – I blogged about it back in February. Today, laughing, she said…
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and yet MORE Adventures with Redscale Photography
Yesterday I blogged about redscale photography with 35mm film – i.e. taking a roll of normal film and flipping the film inside the cartridge so that the light passes through the film itself before it hits the emulsion and causes the chemical reactions that produce an image. The same technique can also be applied, of…
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More Adventures with Redscale Photography
What’s redscale photography? I didn’t know either at first – I saw some “redscale film” for sale and started asking about it, and found out that it’s nothing more than ordinary film, but reversed. Photographic film has layers of chemicals in a certain order to produce the best effect, and as light enters the camera…