Topic: Redscale?

[Windy]

A first attempt at redscale. I used a roll of Kodak Gold 400 and rolled it (back to front) onto a 200 dx coded cassette so that the auto iso function on the Espio would overexpose. Some results


Redscale 1 by windy_, on Flickr


Redscale 4 by windy_, on Flickr


Redscale 5 by windy_, on Flickr


Redscale 7 by windy_, on Flickr

[sapata]

Great tones on 2nd and 3rd picture...

[hookstrapped]

Real nice tones.

[Andrea.]

Lovely colours. Reddish scale maybe ??

[charles binns]

Me likey number 4 (the bridge).  I bought a pack of 3 (Lomo redscales) on ebay recently and been dying to use them (the lomo redscales that is, not the pack of 3).

Looking at these makesd me want to get out and shoot.

[astrobeck]

the light and color on the bridge is magical!

Nice stuff Mr. Windy!

[Heather]

Weird... I'm sure some magical digital things have stripped out the red in your photos? It doesn't look like redscale to me. Maybe a little bit on the first. Maybe it's not exposed as much as I remember doing for my redscale too, I think I shot mine at 100 and was 400, so a two stop change.
The compositions are lovely though

[LT]

I really like the subtle colour shift - much nicer than the usual sickly orangey red in red scale. It sort of looks x-processed.

[Phil Bebbington]

I'm with Leon on this one. The subtle colour shift is far more pleasing in my opinion.

[Soap]

Wow. Weird beautiful tones around. Ill try this someday 

[Windy]

Thanks all for the comments.

Heather - I just scanned as I would with normal film, should I be making adjustments? I'll also try over-exposing more next time.

It's something I've wanted to have a go at for a while, I'll play some more and experiment (different exposures etc.). But, like 'colour popping' I do think it's something where occasional pictures can be effective, but it can soon become too much.

[Francois]

I'm always a bit surprised when I see normal colors come out of a redscaled film!
I know scanners sometimes auto-correct colors without the user's consent...
Epson scan has in the configuration the possibility to constantly adjust exposure or use the ICM color management... it's in the configuration menu. That could be part of the issue.

I checked a book that describes how to do it... a rare thing!
It says the film should be overexposed by a whole 2 stops. The more you overexpose, the less dense the reds will be. Overexposure brings the image in the sepia and yellows territory.

There you have it...

[Windy]

Think it may be an exposure thing. There are mixed results across the film with some shots looking more redscale than others. I Can't see an auto-correction on the scanner, it does a prescan and then you can open an exposure/colour correction programme after the pre-scan.

[Andrea.]

I like them. Very nice colour however it happens!

[Francois]

I Can't see an auto-correction on the scanner, it does a prescan and then you can open an exposure/colour correction programme after the pre-scan.

If the preview looks OK, the scan will be...

[Windy]

Got a second roll of film back from developing yesterday and had similar results. So I started playing with the scanner. Seems (as some have mentioned here) that my result was due to scanner correction. 

Found that I get a true redscale result by scanning the film as a positive image and then correcting digitally