Tag: color

Color Photography

Link: When Fred Herzog Saw in Black and White

The Tyee reminds us of When Fred Herzog Saw in Black and White.

Celebrated as a master of colour, the Vancouver photographer had a different side, now on display.

New a new book show the work he was less known for: black and white. Work published posthumously as Fred Herzog passed away in 2019. This last article shows you a good sample of his colour work, and also relate of the difficulty of shooting in colour.

I discovered Fred Herzog through one of his books at a barber shop in Vancouver when I lived there. What fascinated me was the colour photography of Vancouver, from a time where black & white was the dominant form of photography, mostly due to technology and cost. Pictures of an ever changing city, where heavy transformations make large parts of a city disappear, to be replaced. It showed us the city as it was, and the colour offered us a more realistic feel.

It inspired me.

Overexposing colour negative

Petapixel has Daniel Lachman tell us how much you can over expose colour negative film:

“What I took away from this is that film basically can’t be overexposed, it can just be too dense for the scanner to be able to shoot through the negative. But the information will always be there.”

My quick take is that you can shoot it at +2 and it will be more tolerant to under exposure error.

New film products

Early December Ilford announced two new disposable cameras with their black and white film, one with HP5, the other with XP2.

Strangely, disposable cameras still sell well in comparison, and Ilford is just trying to capitalize on this. There is a version with processing included for the HP5 film as it is traditional B&W. The XP2 film can be processed anywhere as it is C-41 process.

End of January, Lomography announced the LomoChrome Purple, a colour negative film design to achieve effects similar to the long discontinued Kodak EIR inversible film. The 35mm version is already sold out, but the 120 will cost you around $60 for a five pack, on pre-order.

It is good to see new niche product like these or like the Fujifilm Baby box.

Home C-41 color negative film processing

Pixelogist talk about Developing C-41 Color Negative Film explain how simply it can be done at home.

Alright, developing C-41 is pretty similar to the black and white process. The equipment is the same, so just check out my previous post on developing equipment to know what you will need. All of it applies — developing tank, beakers, thermometer, timer — all that. The chemistry is different but again, there’s developer, there’s fixer, and there’s something afterwards. The process, while different in order and times, is also very similar to the black and white process, so if you’ve worked black and white before, you should have no trouble with C-41.

My take: it might be harder to obtain the chemicals than to actually do it.

Kodachrome 2010

A small documentary “Kodachrome 2010” by Xander Robin, with an interview of Dwayne’s Photo lab manager and how it came to an end.

The video was taken down on YouTube due to a copyright claim.

Robert Cohen found his last roll of Kodachrome and went to the Missouri fair to shoot it ; then drove down to Dwayne’s to get it processed, anxiously waiting to see if the film had any picture on it.

My biggest regret is to not have shot Kodachrome more often. I think that the 3 weeks turn around in France was part of what turned me off.