Something from nothing

I enjoy working with really bad negatives (or in this case, positives)

to try and get something. Often what squeezes out is not bad at all.

 

There were ten of us together for a friend's birthday meal of fee &

chee at a local Fish & Chippery. I laid my Yashica Electro 35 GSN on

the rail of the deck we ate on and politely asked it, the camera, to

take our picture using its self timer. For some reason I still don't

understand, that set-up made the GSN think it needed to take a

full-second shot, maybe longer. It did that twice before I stopped

trying to be in the picture and took a decent shot of the other nine.

But here, in both of these, all ten of us are accounted for. I'm the

top right head.

 

The film is Kodak Elite Chrome (ED-3) 200. To get these images from

what was mainly just transparent film, I did a couple of scans,

layered b&w with saturated colour, and increased local tonal contrasts

in the b&w layer. The colours are somewhat different in the two

because of the different proportions of the two layers in the two

images. Because they look so odd, ghostly, and hundred-years-old, I

left all the dirt and other artefacts there.

 

I may make this into a postcard for my friends.

Done