Caffenol-C-M Development part 3.5

Continuing on with my extension from the last post I did about Caffenol-C-M these images are also from Fanime. This roll was all pretty much from the Homestuck Meetup. There were some difdifficulties I had with the file sizes of the bottom images. Basically at proper scanning the images were huge (over 130MB) and there were many issues trying to get them to appear online. Also these are scans from the negatives and they aren't prints so they can be improved if I am able to get into a darkroom.

The single images you can click and view them in the full size I scanned them in. They are so large so you can see the Caffenol's effect on the film as it fogs the film to development which makes some great contrast in black and white film at low speeds.

Now I said just about everything else in my last post which was Caffenol-C-M Development part 3.

Caffenol-C-M Development part 3

This is Part 3 of my Caffenol-C-M development experiment (Part 1, Part 2). I am becoming more comfortable with the process so it isn't so much of an experiment anymore but it still is a very new process I am trying out. I developed two rolls from my trip to San Jose to the Fanime Convention. Some higher resolution scans will come in a few days with the other roll that was developed but I am getting very comfortable measuring all the stuff with the crude measuring tools.

These images are from the Homestuck Gathering at Fanime the rest of the images are from this, and some cosplayers and the Fanimaid performances. The last scan is in color to show what the negatives to show kind of the stain that the coffee leaves. The next update will be the Caffenol-C-M Development 3.5 which will have some more strips and some higher res scans. This will show some of the greatness of the caffenol  development.

Caffenol-C-M Development part 2

      One of my ongoing projects this year is my Caffenol-C-M development. For more information on this you can view one of my older blog post here.  In the past I was going to see if I could make prints with this method but It seems I can't utilize my school's darkroom with out being currently enrolled in a photography class. So that went out the window and I started on developing film only with this method of printing.



     Well on to the scans, these have made me now wanting to upgrade my scanner like no one man has ever had a need to upgrade something that scans before. At firstI had so many issues scanning ten whole film strips. Anyway these photos are from the Hellen CD Release Show. Plus my last trip to Sedona. These are my 3rd and 4th shot roll of Caffenol-C-M developing and I should have 6 more rolls before I am done with my testing of it. It doesn't mean I am going to stop using it as a developing method, but I want to get comfortable with it before I use it for more artistic things and anything that I might not want the chance of ruining a good image with something that I feel is more experimental for the time being.

     As for my notes on this, they were the same but my water was at 76°F and that made my development time drop dramatically in comparison to my first attempt at this. My very first attempt at this type of development didn't have Vitamin C involved and took a half hour on development alone.

What I did while writing this blog post:

Listened to white noise

Chatted with a friend about pokemon

Looked for a new scanner

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]