This is my daughter Claire, shot with a 35mm black and white film that expired in 2008.
The detail of which are as follows:
Film: ILFORD HP5 Plus , ISO 400 (expired August 2008)
Camera : Olympus OM20
Lens : Olympus Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Film Developed by: riverandcoast.co.uk
Negative Processing : Placed on my Ā£20 lightpad and photographed with my Sony A6000 camera and Industar N61 53mm (with an extension tube to make it a macro lens). Image then post processed in GIMP, converting negative to positive.
The image is lovely and sharp but wow look at that film grain from the expired film !
The image was shot on a lockdown walk with my daughter and grandaughter.
The government say the lockdown was the last one ever ..... hmmmmm...I'm not too sure about that.
@allie912 allison, i wouldn't recommend doing that . since you mention fridges, I know some photographers at our camera club who have expired film cartridges in their fridge !!!
A lovely pose and shot - love the way Claire is looking over her shoulder at you and smiling . I quite like the grainy effect created by this expired old film It gives the shot a rather "oldie " look !
I understood little of what you wrote, Phil, except that it was captured on a long-ago expired film but I am 'zero' rated in such details. My knowledge with film photography is that I take the film to the photographer to have it processed and see the picture. I like the old feel in this shot with Claire very sharply captured in b&w.
@sangwann Dione , it's really easy ... I put a roll of film through an old camera , had the film developed and printed . When the packet of prints and negatives arrived I photographed the negatives ( similar to scanning ) and then edited the picture of the negative , turning it to positive in the edit ... š·
@casablanca thanks Casa , this will be a new extension to my vintage lens processing ...shooting film with the vintage cameras and lenses . Exciting š·
Fabulous portrait. My father used to keep his film in the fridge, especially ones that had been partially used and once fully exposed and waiting for him to develop them. He was doing it in the late 70s and early 80s. Back then all the film canisters were black and he used to record the date on the canister. Wish I known then what I know now, maybe I would have taken over all his darkroom equipment.
May 26th, 2021
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@tinley23 thank you Lesley, that is very kind of you :)
@casablanca thanks Casa , this will be a new extension to my vintage lens processing ...shooting film with the vintage cameras and lenses . Exciting š·