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Negative effect on the phone camera

Negative Effect Series

FP4+ (80), Pyrocat HD 1+1+100 12mins 20c, reduced agitation. White balance reset to address blue cast from light table.

5x7 Paper negative

Sometimes you get stuck. The paper negative does not have enough latittude for foreground, background, and sky.

Exposed at ISO 5, Developed in paRodinal 50:1 for 3 minutes.

Scanned Negative

Here is a stand of flowers in the yard belonging to the house immediately behind the Castle. I simply aimed toward the left of these flowers a little to capture the Castle, that's how I got both shots from the same place.

Camera: Kodak 35 (made in 1948)

Lens: Kodak Anastar 50mm, f/3.5

Film: Kodak Gold 200-6, 200 ISO 35mm

Aperture: F/8

Shutter speed: 1/200

Date: July 2nd, 2009

Location: Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A.

Film lab scanned negative.

This is the negative of a picture of the moon I took. It looks like a drawing of the moon.

of Neil Grogan

Having not used a Kodak 35 in quite a few years, I forgot that the film had to be advanced by pushing down a little button on the top and simultaneously turning the film winding knob. But.... when you do this, the shutter is cocked and it's ready to take another picture. So, even if you bump the shutter accidentally, you're going to take a picture of something. This unexposed fourth frame of the roll was a result of my not remembering that the best way to do this with a Kodak 35 is to not wind the film after taking a shot and only winding it when you're ready to take the next shot. Here, I wound it right after I took the picture of my high school and then drove across town to photograph the grade school. But, in driving across town to my next subject, I forgot I had already wound it, so I ended up winding it again and totally skipping this frame. But, I wanted to detail the whole process, so here is the unexposed frame in all it's glory.

After I'd done it, I realized right away what had happened, so I made sure it didn't happen for the rest of the roll. And it didn't. (Although there was one other tiny thing I forgot to do, which will be described later.)

The lake behind St. Anthony's in Lorain

Unidentified location

Negative @ Sala Mephisto, Barcelona - 14/03/09

Unfortunately, it usually works.

this urn is used to meditate and capture negative energy. the profile is to resemble that of a samurai warrior

This is from a series of old negatives found in an envelope in a box of photographs at a junk store in Dewey, Oklahoma. Some seem related, others do not. Most are damaged in some way and/or poorly executed in the camera and in the dark room. Many are over- exposed.

To try to make some sense of the group, all were scanned so that obscure details might be revealed.

My beautiful picture

Second, I used the straighten tool.

(Negative space)

This painting's from my 'Negative' collection. It's acrylic on canvas and is quitea large piece, the canvas has been backed on to a larger white canvas to create a frame/border (this is not visible on the image above. This collection was inspired by the memories of someone who had lost a loved one and these were the most important places for them where they went and visited during this difficult time. These locations held alot of memories for this person sad and happy ones but I decided to paint these in a photo negative style to portray the feelings of loss and sadness which were the prominent feelings associated with these locations at the time. I felt painting these places in their true pallet would extract the mood and depth that was needed for this body of work.

Watercolor

Boston Marathon

Various negatives. Most of them can be guessed. Or you may ask me :-)

Old 4x5 Glass Negatives photographed January 10, 2012. Looks like this was taken from in front of 20 Waldorf Court. Looks like a [passenger train is just beyond the house. There are still tracks there today, according to GoogleMaps: maps.google.com/maps?q=20+Waldorf+Court,+Brooklyn+NY&...

Negative FTP01326_3

The Fay Thomas Collection includes family archives relating to the Thomas family. Moses Thomas (1825-1878) was a significant figure in the history of the area now known as the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia. Moses and Ann and their family lived at "Mayfield", Mernda, near Whittlesea, Victoria.

YPRL hold digital copies of the Papers of the Moses Thomas Family held at State Library Victoria

Copyright for these images is Public domain but a credit to the Fay Thomas Collection and YPRL would be appreciated.

Enquiries: Yarra Plenty Regional Library

Negative Approach @ Characters 3/4/16

David McKay DB3S - 1958