Shoot 6 - Kodachrome into black and white

This was my sixth shoot where originally I was going to be doing double exposures with boiling, to finish off that part of my work although I was unable to proses the film due to the boiling of it which I hadn't come across before with my previous 2 shoots. In this shoot I looked into expired film, more importantly I looked into Kodachome. Which is a film that was discontinued back in 2010 and no one has found a way recreate the development proses.The film normally would be a colour positive slide, but a user at lomogrpaphy showed a way of developing it in black and white, which was just the same proses as black and white with some added time for washing.  Which is what did, I washed the film first and then did the normal back and white proses, but at each stage had to pour way the chemicals due to how dirty the water got from the colour emulsion layer. At first I was unable to see any pictures on the negatives, but when if you looked closer you could see very thin images, I attempted to make a contact sheet and print pictures in the dark room, but was unable to get anything more than a muddy and washed out picture. I then decided to use our scanner which has a 35mm film clip in it. This worked far better as I got to see a detailed picture from the negative.

I think this shoot worked very well for what I was working with and how unpredictable expired film is. I don't think I worked out my exposures correctly as it started out as a 200 ISO film but I shot it as if it was a 100 ISO but I think I should have gone lower to a 50 or 25 ISO as it was a 30 year old film which would have got me stronger negatives.

The final picture were improved in photoshop which is post production, but in this case it was required due to how badly exposed and developed the film was.

The shots were very much in the style of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Vivian Maier where I was using old film and shooting street photography, working on Bressons "Decisive moment" theory to shoot. But not all my pictures of people came out so most are close ups and landscapes.

I think this shoot went well, there are many different things that could and did go wrong but to get this out of a 30 year old film that wasn't designed to be developed in black and white, it worked out..

This was taken very over exposed but the comntrast beteween the black and the white sign is very luring, especibly when the words "no entery private" are on the sign. which gives it a ghostly and ery feel to the picture. Where infact it is jut the entrance to a block of fllats.

With a lot of my cameras, clouds are always on point. There always vibran and fluffy. Where the deoth of  field is at infinate it can do landscapes very well and the clouds always look difined, the contrast beween the dark land and the white clouds add a nice split between the pitures top and bottom hald.

This is coulds again but with no land or refrence point, so this could be upsidedown. I like this one as it shows how bad the kodachome can be to the picturre if you dont wipe off all the black emultion on the film. as it has left streaks on the film. In this shot you can clearly see the grain of the film, but it could aslo be the water streak marks on the negative.