nevermind the darkness - Ilford fp4
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
Few things, real quick:
Going to shoot more black and white than I thought. Winter is a bit yuck for color sometimes and it just opens up more chances to shoot. Thoughts lately feels now good for some Lomo-type stuff though, so I’ll try to work that in too, but only if it’s good enough. The wacky colors of the holidays could be interesting on wacky rolls.
Shooting film feels a bit more seasonal (besides being circumstantial) than I gave it credit. I’ll put that in better words someday.
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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 ‘halo’). It seems to 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 ‘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.
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