Red Velvia: Help!!

[DaveF]

Whatever the problem turns out to be, the result shown in the example is still a superb abstraction. Print that image.

Keith

Thanks! I was able to rescue it to B&W, but only because the original scene was so bright. The other sheets are virtually indecipherable.

[DaveF]

PS Here is the original shot!

[koraks]

Agreed!

curious that reversing the sheet causes this. I'll have to keep that in mind.

Look up redscale photography. Lomo makes money by rolling film the wrong way round into canisters and selling it as a specialty product. Any color film can be exposed from the wrong way to produce these results. You need to overexpose by 1-2 stops for red colors, 3-4 for the addition of brown-yellow and green-blue is added when you expose at about 5 stops below box speed. At least that's the ballpark for negative film.

[sdzsdz]

Yes, you redscaled it. By the way the result Looks fantastic. Wouldn't wonder to see it in MoMA or Tate modern

[DaveF]

Thanks, as you can tell I'm relatively new to this ballgame, so really don't know what I'm doing! Fascinating result all the same. I'll try to get out again to take some more 5x4s again soon, loaded correctly this time...