Redscaling

[white]

I'd never heard of this technique until a few days ago. Basically it involves shooting color negative film backwards -- through the base with the emulsion side facing away. Wondering if any of you crazy kids have ever done this? I've heard it's nearly impossible to overexpose, and to get a 'decent exposure', it's probably a good idea to overexpose each frame by at least 1 stop, and up to 3.

Woohoo. 1,000th post.

 

[Josh66]

I've never tried taking a roll apart and respooling it backwards, but I have shot some of the Lomography Redscale 100... (Which is the same thing, just crappier.)


This was shot at 100, and brought up 1-1.5 stops in PP.

The first roll, I shot at ISO 100 and they were very dark. The second roll I shot at 50, and exposure looked better, but I think it lost a little of the character of it...

I still have one more roll, I think I'll shoot that at 80...

I would kinda like to try this with some good film. I bulk load my own film, so that's not a problem. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to get it out of the canister and back in backwards.

Haha ... this weekend I think I'll try to load up some redscale Fuji 160S.

3 stops over-exposure might be too much. You really only lose about 1 stop by shooting through the film backwards - so 1 stop over = 'correct' exposure.

 

[white]

I would kinda like to try this with some good film. I bulk load my own film, so that's not a problem. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to get it out of the canister and back in backwards.

How to make redscale film

Seems easy enough.

 

[Josh66]

I would kinda like to try this with some good film. I bulk load my own film, so that's not a problem. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to get it out of the canister and back in backwards.

How to make redscale film

Seems easy enough.

Awesome. Thanks!

I would have never thought of that. I was planning on opening the canister, removing the film, cutting it off of the spool, taping it back on... The link you posted looks much easier.

I think I could modify that slightly though, and just tape the leader to the spool of a fresh canister. I'll waste less film that way too. (I know it would only be a few inches of waste ... but that still bothers me for some reason, lol.)

 

[Josh66]

Update...

I have recently redscaled some Fuji Pro 160S - it came out way redder that I thought it would. Exposed at 80 & 100 ISO.

Pretty cool effect, for some things, but not suitable for everything.

One example:

01221118 by J E, on Flickr

Very little PP - it really was that red.