boreal afternoons: cinestill 800 T (with 85b filter)
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
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The groundhog has emerged from his hole. Cinestill 800T shot with an 85b filter shot over the course of this winter. Tungsten film is really nice with the 85b filter, gives the whites a more bluish tone, which looks nice for the season. I wanted 800 ISO because it gets dark out here real early, safer choice for things (though I could do without all of the grain), but have to use the filter, otherwise everything comes out blue during daylight shooting. People shoot it without the filter though, at night, makes the shops and resto lights look real nice. Too cold to sit out in the evening.
What’s all the red? Two things:
Halation effect from the Cinestill film itself. This is just a characteristic of the stock, see also my post here. This will occur mostly in the highlights. Some people like it, some don’t.
The more linear red streaking is actually caused from static electricity! Crazy, eh? It can happen from a hard/quick advance, especially shows up on Cinestill films. I like that I’m adding electric charge to my images (see ‘embers’), makes things a little more visceral feeling. I’ll have to make sure not to advance so quickly next time, or maybe not and really go for it.
methods many: portraits - kodak portra 400 + tri-x 400 + ilford delta 400 + digital
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
Got the chance to do a test shoot with Nicolas (@nicolas_sacroug) on a few different rolls. An excellent experience working with him, trying different things on different formats, and I think we were able to create some great portraits together. Great energy (despite the freezing temperatures) made for an excellent session. Thank you Nicolas.
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colors of grey days - Kodak Pro Image 100 (pushed one stop)
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
Shooting on color in Paris can feel quite drab, making it understandable that would make this a great city for black and white, but the color is nice here. Kodak Pro Image is a good stock for adverse weather conditions (well, hotter temperatures at least) at its price, so I wanted to see how it performed, as it could prove to be a useful stock for the future. I’ll probably get to it again to try with some hot, hot sunny weather, an once there is more light available throughout the days here. But otherwise, the colors are pretty pleasant. Sun goes down real fast now.
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land of the red sun - Cinestill 400d (pulled one stop)
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
I wouldn’t recommend accidentally pulling Cinestill 400d, unless you really like the halation effect (that kind of glowing red halo around the lights - see it strongly in ‘halo’ with the church lights). It seems to also wash the entire image in a red cast; not something I’d like to spend the hours needed to correct. I’ve been switching between different cameras and setups lately, that I think I forgot to reset this roll (I will hardly ever pull film), also was messing around with in-camera double exposing (see ‘start of day’, ‘essentially’), but it was interesting to see despite the unintended results. Pulling not only exaggerated the red casting, but also seemed to splash some red light leak-looking things (see ‘lightest part’ and ‘homilies’) onto the image. Fingers crossed its the film and not a camera problem.
panorama camera - Expired roll
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
I found an old point and shoot panorama camera in my things. It’s not a true panorama, but rather a 35mm point and shoot that blacks out the frame to give that panorama letterbox look. I didn’t even know I still had the camera, let alone that there was film on it. Expired film, plastic camera, light leaks, sitting in a box for years. Perfect, let’s develop it.
So here’s a roll of expired Fujifilm 200, probably from around Covid time from what I can see. Images were left untreated and at original crop, because there is no coming back for these.
There’s no lesson to take from this as it is a miracle anything came out of this roll, and though not the greatest, some nice memories of friends from a forgotten time.