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800T
Old Kodak Eastman cine stock repackaged as 35mm stills film.
800 ISO
The only surviving colour image of the entire shoot. As old film stock in a recycled canister, it was rewound prematurely into the camera. It is a highly unusual film in that it is balanced for indoor light. Using it with daylight, LEDs or even fluorescent lighting will leave a colour cast. Given that the subject had no colour, the entire frame filled with grey graphite, this image raised issues to me about colour pollution. By contrast, the black and white film was gratifying to use as it expressed the tonal qualities in the drawings, the higher the contrast the more dramatic the recording. The colour film was grainy, soft and embued to the romance of hollywood film, there’s a red glare in the image which I think is intrinsic to the film, rather than the subject. I feel that more testing is required to explore the art of colour reproduction.
For the record, all images were matched to their contact prints, with the negatives scaned on an Imacon Flextight and cropped in Lightroom to 8×10. No Photoshop adjustments have been made, and all screens were calibrated to replicate, as best as possible, the images as they appeared on the negative.
