Cross Processing

     Well this Saturday I went to Sedona, Arizona with Miles and James. I shot a couple of rolls of 120mm film, one black and white and a roll of 35mm slide film. There are some digital shots of this trip but that is for another post. The rolls of 120 weren't cross processed but this is more about the cross processing of the Kodak Elite Chrome 100. I did take some video and threw together a quick montage of the trip.

     Cross processing the slide film in C-41 was interesting, I was extremely curious on what the photos would come out looking like. The negatives were really purple which surprised me and to properly scan these I had to do them as a color negative. Which all the purple gave me these results with the strange yellowish tint. The entire trip was awesome, I am just a little disappointed that it was really hazy but the overall trip was a nice break for vacation.

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Things I did while writing this post:

- Talked to a friend about cuddling squid

- Watching some Tim and Eric 

- Listened to some big band music

Josh Evans' Promo Shoot

     Alright here is the second part update of the day with Josh Evans and Mindy Duponte's photoshoot. The same technical mumbo jumbo this post is going to be much shorter than the last. This photo shoot was a lot of fun though. Great location, and the off camera flash was awesome.

     I did get a new receiver, so now I can use both flashes I own off camera. Which is awesome because I can now add more depth to my images, and play with lighting things in different ways. I also grabbed a Flip video camera to record some of the shoot and possibly make some video of them and make like a cool montage or something. It is almost 4 a.m. and I am getting sleepy, I can't remember what else I had to talk about.

Things I did while writing this blog post:

-Tried not passing out

-Chatted with a friend

-Didn't get distracted by T.V.

Mindy Duponte Photoshoot

     Well today I have done a couple of photo shoots. One with Josh Evans and one with Mindy Duponte. I finally got to uploading some images from Heaven Vs. Hell 4. With this super busy Sunday I have hardly had a lot of time to do other work fortunately  I was able to get these edits done, tomorrow I will be working on more tomorrow for Josh and working on some other blog posts. This is just a small preview of what is to come for this week.

     To get to the nitty gritty of this post now, these were shot with my spotlight and my wireless transmitters. Soon I should be getting my new transmitter so I can be working my 430 and the 580 off camera and that should add a bit more of depth to the images or at least add some awesome back lighting effects along side of a hard light.

     Soon I might also be putting on some edited video on the blog as well. Once I get my 5dmII the quality of the video will be drastically raised but since my purchase of my MacBook Pro I am able to run final cut so I might be able to do some video logs of some of my adventures and photoshoots.

Things I did while writing this blog post:

- Chatted on Skype

- Pokemon White version (nuff said)

Hellen Sorry For Screaming

     For the people who are unaware of my roots in the Arizona metal band Hellen they have their CD release show this Saturday. A full length CD has been long awaited from the group. I did take photos for the CD and the Hellen social networking websites. I will show the photo in the CD, but the event was absolutely amazing, the  intimacy with the crowd at Joe's Grotto is always wonderful! Last Step Down and Hellen absolutely abolished the other bands that were going to play later on that night. I write this as I am finally home from a long day of shooting, arranging and general working.

     This mostly took place at night and with Miles for his infrared photography, gathering models and traveling to locations. I will eventually post images I took from that in a different blog post with a link to Miles's blog and/or images when he gets them online. Other than that enjoy the images from Hellen's CD release party "Sorry For Screaming"!

Things I did while writing this blog post:

- Chatted with a friend

- Took a shower

- Uploaded photos

Caffenol-C-M Development part 1

     Well this is a part of my caffenol development project, these were mainly the test rolls but the scans were pretty fun. Part of the film was shot at Matsuri, and the other part was shot when location scouting for my friend Mile's next assignment. He was also with me with the light painting entry and assisted with that. The caffenol development went a lot better than planned, I want to make some prints with this in the future but for now I should just clean up the negatives and get some better scans. This was using Caffenol-C-M, which essentially is developing with instant coffee. From what I have read it works wonderfully with slow grade films like anything under iso 100. This was 400 iso film and I can already notice the difference between normal development and developing this way. I would love to do this with some Pan-F 50. These scans remind me that I do need to get a new negative scanner.

     I included my developing notes so you can kind of see the tought process I was going through to get the developer made and working. Hope you like the images!

 So with out further adieu my development notes and my photos!

Things I did while writing this blog:

-  Chatted on facebook

- Scan a bunch of negatives 

- Cleaned a bunch of darkroom stuff

- Listed to [adult swim]