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Ed Wenn

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Gunk/Goop is good
« on: April 27, 2008, 08:20:54 PM »
Was out in the garden on Saturday for the Chopper wedding shoot collaboration and ended up resorting to Polaroid. Got some nice positives, but also found time to play around in the gunk. Pretty cool. Expired 125i film. Scanned when still wet and then the contrast 'upped' in Photoshop (a lot). 360 Land camera.





Managed to get the scanner cleaned up OK afterwards too  :D
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Re: Gunk is good
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2008, 09:25:19 PM »
brilliant! I don't understand what you've done, but superb pair of images. The first is mysterious, the second exuberant.
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Re: Gunk is good
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2008, 09:53:31 PM »
I never met a gunk I didn't like. These look fun...but a disaster on the scanner I know. I thought this was the 669 film. I have no 669 left. That is not right.
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Re: Gunk is good
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2008, 09:59:10 PM »
D steered me towards 125i last year. Job lots were going for cheap on evilBay so I bought about 10 packs. 3 or 4 left. Suspect the goop/gunk factor is similar to 669.
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2008, 10:01:54 PM »
Hmm, very good. I think my photo lab still may have some on teh shelf. I have one single pack of SX-70 left and I am going to sell it on ebay for $345.00. And that is my final answer...
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2008, 05:56:33 AM »
i've been really patient with my polaroid purchases. not like i'm going to use everything i have in the next two weeks, so what's the rush. couple weeks ago, i got 20 packs of 600 on ebay for a bit less than 8 bucks a pack (and he threw in an extra pack). people are just so spastic they rush and overbid. uv-id is always cheaper, too, than 699, even though it's about the same.

as for color goop, i'm usually not at home when i shoot, so it dries and fades before i can scan it. wonder if i can 'bring it back' somehow. hmm....
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2008, 09:39:52 AM »
These dried for about an hour on a warm day before I scanned them. Trade off between image fading/dulling and the physical restrictions of scanning an image that is wet and sticky. Placed 'em face down on the flatbed surface so didn't want the image itself to still be wet/sticky when I did the scanning.

I made sure I placed them in the far corners of the scanner - i.e. nowhere near the area of the scanning surface that I use for neg/film work. Seems like no damage done. Will definitely do some more in the future.
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2008, 10:07:23 AM »
COuld you place them on acetate ,then it would protect the glass. I've read of photograms being made in this way...just a thought
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2008, 12:45:17 AM »
Good point, Karl. Assuming the dreaded Newton rings don't appear then that would be worth trying.

BTW, for anyone not familiar with the peel-apart process here are some very poor digital snaps of the photos just after developing was complete.

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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2008, 04:39:34 AM »
an hour! they would be bone dry and faded to nothing in about 5 minutes here!
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2008, 07:57:54 AM »
...ah, the hard life you desert folk lead.

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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2008, 10:08:34 PM »
If they dry out too fast, you can always use a humidor...
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2008, 04:54:48 AM »
i'll just carry them to the cigar store at the mall to keep them moist...
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2008, 04:46:32 AM »
mmm-mmmm, good gooping Ed

When I'm out of Polaroid, maybe I can swipe my son's 'barrel-o-monster slime'' to smear over prints??
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2008, 01:09:37 PM »
Quote from: db on May 01, 2008, 04:46:32 AM
mmm-mmmm, good gooping Ed

When I'm out of Polaroid, maybe I can swipe my son's 'barrel-o-monster slime'' to smear over prints??

...might be a viable way forward.
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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2008, 09:07:15 PM »
Hi all,

Is Gooping with a [whispers] digital camera OK instead of using a scanner?

That way the image can still be wet when the goop picture is made.

Seems to work for me with the Fuji 100 film.

Am I way out of my depth here?  ;D



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Re: Gunk/Goop is good
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2008, 10:06:35 PM »
Shouldn't be a problem. I know a guy who actually chucked his scanner and uses a digicam on a hand made (and shoddy looking I should add) copy stand.
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