Topic: Back From Albania

[Ed Wenn]

I was fortunate enough to spend a long weekend in the company of 3 good friends last week. We had a great time and I wasted a ton of film. Too many to post here, but I've just scanned a copuple of films and was excited enough to post some of the better efforts. I took 4 very different cameras with a view to producing different types of photos and so far the plan seems to have worked. Here are some photos from the collection marked, "Rangefinder/Colour". All were taken with a Yashica GSN Electro and Fuji Fortia cross-processed and then scanned as monochrome to give a dated look. No post-processing in Pshop beyond a tiny use of Curves on some of the snaps. I particularly like the first one.

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[LT]

very nice Ed - the 1st two have a look of Simon Norfolk about them. http://www.simonnorfolk.com/

[Ailsa]

I like these a lot - particularly Scoreboard and Balcony. Scoreboard seems to increase in intensity the more you look at it - or is that just me...? 

[Skorj]

Glorious! The color effect is marvellous, as are the subjects. Just sweet. Love that scoreboard. Your subjects suit your process perfectly. We need more...

[Phil Bebbington]

Great set of photos....I particularly like the  first one. I would imagine that Albania has a lot of decay to photograph! Looking forward to seeing more.

[Skorj]

All were taken with a Yashica GSN Electro and Fuji Fortia cross-processed and then scanned as monochrome to give a dated look.

Not that I am trying to steal your secrets or anything (ha!), but I get the first few steps, the GSN (nice!), the x-pro Fortia, but you loose me with monochrome scanning; would this not result in monochrome photographs? No color? Assume you're not recoloring them, and wasting that Fortia, but you are scanning them as something other than slide film? Skj.

[Ed Wenn]

Mark, no worries re exposing (fnarr fnarr) the technique. I scan using Silverfast with Photoshop. I set the image type to colour negative (which is why it's still colour and not monochrome despite what my first post may have led you to believe) and then in the film type selection I choose Other/Other/Monochrome or in some cases Other/Other/Macophot 25. To put that in context, a more typical setting for scanning colour film would be Fuji/Superia/100. If I use those setting with the Fortia the resulting scan looks crazy and bar setting up my own custome profiles (me no time) using the above setting(s) is the best way for me to achieve this affect without any involved manipulation in Pshop afterwards...although I suppose that this technique qualifies as cooking the books somewhat anyway, right?

 

Leon: Thanks so much for the Simon Norfolk comparison. He is one of the current crop who I really rate and I love a lot of his output. I would never have seen it had you not mentioned it, but yeah, those first two definitely are headed into Norfolk territory (not that I'd presume etc.). I'm chuffed now. You've made my day.

[FrankB]

They're great shots and the colour palette is really lovely. Sorry to be a conformist, but Scoreboard is my favourite too, with the Balcony coming in a not-too-distant second.

[outofcontxt]

Great series, Ed. Scoreboard is definitely my fave of the bunch but the others are quite impressive as well.

[Ron]

the scoreboard scores again (yeah, I know corny)     just such an interesting vantage point and a wonderful study of an odd stucture with the bottom providing kinda divided 'frames'.  really enjoying the jetty and balcony, too.  the jetty is again bold with a strong structural element.  the engineer in me is coming out