June 18, 2017

my first roll of redscale film



It was my first time to shoot redscale film even after shooting film for four years. I'm telling you, I'm not experimental on things. I've said this before, I'm sure. I do things, and when I see that the way I do them works, I will stick to it for as long as I can.

I never bought any redscale film for a simple reason: I don't dig the red-stricken photos. So, it was only sensible that I spend my hard-earned money on films that I already enjoy or aspire shooting with, than on film that I'm not interested that much.




Good thing that last December, my Emulsive Secret Santa got me a loot of film photography goodies with a roll of Rollei Redbird in it. I've asked around the #believeinfilm community in Twitter (basically a bunch of awesome, helpful people) and researched a bit about it before popping it into my Minolta X-500 (my latest acquired SLR camera!)





Redbird was fresh and rated at 400, but to consider that I was going to shoot the other side of the film where there is a lot less of transparency (hence, the red tint), I shot it at ISO 100. Now that I've tried it, I was proven otherwise. I enjoy seeing the results :)

I did not know I would like seeing red and yellow until I saw them on my own photos. Ahh, science <3







And to add more fascination, I also got this awesome bluish tint on some of the frames. I'm trying to remember the settings I shot them with so I'd take note of it for my next redscale film. I really like this blue wash :)






If I get the chance to shoot with another redscale film, I would probably spend shooting the entire roll outdoors, in landscape and architecture, where there are a lot more details and shadows to play with.

In the end, I'm glad I get to try it. On a normal shooting day, I would enjoy more the actual shoot than seeing the results. But with redscale, it was the other way around. Variety is good, sometimes :) Note to self.

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