Abusing Film part 1

 
     Well this is the first part of my abusing film experiment. I say experiment because I am doing this, for science. Well that is what I would like to believe but playing Portal 2 has gotten me all experiminty fresh. So expect a Caffenol update soon. I would like to do more film abuse soon but I don't have a lot of color negatives, and the bulk that I do have are from a lomo film camera that I bring around to take random snap shots of things. I would rather abuse some cool negatives just because the end result I will end up liking more.

     These were from an older shoot that should have been cross processed but the lab didn't take kindly to my request and decided to process 2 rolls of film anyway that should have been cross processed then charge me a lot more. Thanks, I really appreciate large bills for no real reason. It had to be done, for science. The good part about that large bill also why I used these negative is because I have a bunch of 5x7 prints. So I thought these would be just fine to start my experiments.
 
     These were in hot water with a ton of salt. The bottom one was microwaved for 12 seconds in 3 second burts and the others were just soaked in the water for about a minute or so. I might do more to these, probably soak them in some other colored fluids or something. To change up the emulsion more, but the microwaved ones you can see the sea salt crystallizing. I find that to be pretty neat, but it isn't nearly as much as an abused look as I wanted. Needless to say there will be more microwaving for the melted look along with some other things I have in store.

Things I did while writing this blog post:

Sneezed multiple times

Had a refreshing glass of water

Tried to not quote GLaDOS