Expired Film Day …….

R3-02402-0001Last week, well March 15th to be precise was Expired film day where photographers were encouraged to shoot a roll of expired film, the older the better and post up and possibly win some prizes.

http://schneidan.com/expired-film-day/

My chosen film was a roll of Fuji NPS160 that expired back in 1999 and I shot it with my trusty Mamiya 645 and 80mm f2.8.

I rushed home from work hoping to catch the last rays of sun down Porthcawl Beach which we managed to do.R3-02402-0002I wasn’t sure how the colours were going to look like as NPS is more a portrait film with muted colours. With it being expired I shot it at iso 50 and told Film Dev that I pushed the film and if the could hopefully get something in the scanning for me.R3-02402-0010When  I downloaded the scans I was very happy with the results, the colours were just what I was after and captured the mood of the early evening at the beach.R3-02402-0006I still have another 5 rolls of this film in my fridge and can’t wait to shoot some more weather allowing 🙂R3-02402-0005-Edit-EditR3-02402-0011R3-02402-0012 R3-02402-0009 R3-02402-0003

Thanks for looking.

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You can also find my film only stuff over at https://usingfilm.wordpress.com/ if you want to see more film loveliness …..

Week 6 – A visit to the Beach

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We had a little break in the weather here in the week (still cold and rainy) so it was time for a little visit to Porthcawl seafront.

I love shooting the Mamiya C330 so after the B&W last week I loaded it with some expired Kodak Portra 160VC which I rated at 320 iso.

I had the film Processed/Scanned/Colour Corrected by http://www.filmdev.co.uk/ who also pushed it by one stop approx when processing. They do such a good job for a very reasonable price.

I have tried processing my own C-41 at home but I have never got consistent results and the same goes for scanning colour negatives.

Film-Dev do all the hard work for me and I know that the images I get back are going to be correct (unless I make a mistake taking them).

I love the subtle colours I got, not as vivid as I was expecting…

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