Red Light
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
(Today's illustration has nothing to do with today's topic except for the fact that I used red, and today's title has the word "red" in it and is an obscure Siouxsie & the Banshees song about photography (sort of). The subject is Alli Jiang - check out her Flickr stream here - and is ballpoint pen and Sharpie, with colour done in Photoshop.)
My 220 film arrived today!
But I apparently had a brain aneurysm and didn't realise I bought transparency (vs. negative) film, although luckily I didn't end up with Kodachrome that evidently can only be developed in one lab in the entire world - in Kansas, of all places.
I shot my first test roll today and freaked out because something odd was happening. I was pretty sure I was killing something.
It turns out the foam inserts in the Holga can't accommodate the larger diameter of 220 film, so with the first couple rotations I succeeded (unknowingly) in completely ripping out the foam and wedging it between the spool and the first layer of paper. Oy gavalt.
Before I started I pretty much resigned myself to the fact that none of my photos would come out anyway, and now I really know that since there's about a 6mm wedge of foam that's exposing half of my film's edge.
That foam had some intense glue-job going on. I had to Goo Gone that crap for about twenty-five minutes before I made any sort of progress.
I forgot to reinsert the 6x6 mask between cleaning the Holga's insides and loading a fresh roll of film and had to decide between either shooting without the mask and dealing with the problems, or rewinding the roll in a darkbag and reloading it and dealing with the problems.
I did the latter because I was feeling adventurous.
I was a bit stupid today but at least I was dealing with plastic and not dysentery.
So, today's lessons?
01 Read everything about everything when purchasing film, or risk nearly raping yourself in the ear with a bad choice. Although, nearly is still better than actually.
02 Skittish dogs do not like cameras in their faces.
03 Goo Gone is the shit.
Labels: art, film, holga, photography
posted by GMH @ 16:52,
1 Comments:
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At July 05, 2008 8:29 AM,
Rrramone said...
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Love this drawing! It may be my fav on your blog. I am a big fan of Aesop's fables too. :-)
And I enjoyed your first post about racism. Just did a multicultural workshop and racism is on the brain.
Have a glorious day!
