{"id":1742,"date":"2013-06-18T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T09:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T06:39:42","slug":"redscale-photography-first-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Redscale Photography – First Attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being new to film photography, I had never heard of “redscale photography” until I spotted this on on Flickr and had to know how he had gotten this effect:<\/p>\n

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Wanting to try it out on my own, I did a bit of research and discovered that the “redscale film” being offered by some vendors is really nothing other than ordinary film, run through the camera backward – i.e. so the light goes through the film before it hits the emulsion. \u00a0So I went down to the garage (the darkest room at my house but from the film results maybe not quite dark enough) and wound a roll of 35mm film backward into a discarded roll. (Here’s how I made my own redscale film<\/a>) \u00a0Then I loaded it into an old Ricoh Kr-5 and started shooting. When I got my film back, a number of the photos in the middle and beginning of the roll were ruined (overexposed), but I think that was due to errors in the process of reversing the film.<\/p>\n

What I learned from the photos that did turn out is that a bit of underexposure (or smaller aperture) increases the redscale effect. Take these, for instance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The one on the left is almost like it was taken using normal film. I think the aperture was something like f\/5.6.<\/p>\n

This is another example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In this case, you can underexpose too much, but there is something to be said for the darkest photo. Kind of like this one:<\/p>\n

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Here are the rest of the “better” photos on this roll:<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah – when you take a photo backward through the film, everything gets flipped in reverse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being new to film photography, I had never heard of “redscale photography” until I spotted this on on Flickr and had to know how he had gotten this effect: Wanting to try it out on my own, I did a bit of research and discovered that the “redscale film” being offered by some vendors is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[339,1303],"tags":[1791,884],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-namibia","category-genphotography","tag-photography","tag-redscale"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}