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New video by my partner Casey Scott!

Snow day!

I load the Nikon with Pan F, slap on a lens shade and Casey and I hit the streets!

Casey swings.

This one needs some Photoshop help- as you can see, the Diana doesn't put the frame exactly square on the negative. I can't just crop the top edge as I did the others because I lose too much of Casey's head.

Casey in Rome

Casey by the Piazza Della Repubblica again. Cross-processed Provia, shot with the Diana, with cool new Photoshop color adjustment.

New Casey graphic!

A different picture from the pink shoot, amped up quite a bit in Photoshop. Most of the stuff from this shoot was pretty severely overexposed- I had just gotten my White Lightning setup and hadn't quiiite got a handle on it yet. To get this look I used the shadow/highlight and exposure adjustments in PS CS2. I also had to fill in the background because my seamless paper wasn't wide enough.

We're doing a series of shots with each member of Red Venus Love Army in beret and some goggles we found on the ground. This is from one of the test rolls.  I think I used Arista 400, which if repackaged Fomapan. I usually push my 400 speed BW to 1600.

While we're on the subject, here are my impressions of some of the different BW films pushed 2 stops:
Ilford HP5: looks lovely, nice grain and contrast. I use HP5 for all my serious stuff.
Kodak TMY: looks crappy, pulpy-looking grain, contrast out of control- highlights blown massively, shadows blocked up. 
Fortepan: Not great- seemed to get a weird sooty look and the highlights tended to blow.
Fomapan: pretty good, maybe not as pretty as the HP5. I get this repackaged as Arista for practice/experimental stuff, because it's cheap. 
Neopan 400: I like it a lot- maybe more contrasty and grainy than the HP5, but not out of control. I would use a lot more of this, except I like the HP5 more, and I want to limit the number of films I use. 

Take all this with a grain of salt- in the darkroom I don't have the strictest tolerances in the world, so maybe the bad results are due to sloppiness.

Here's Casey just before our trip to Rome, shot with the Diana and some cross-processed Fuji slide film.  

Casey by the fountain in the Piazza Della Reppublica in Rome, again with the Diana, Fuji Provia cross-processed.  

Casey with her brother's Gibson SG. From the pink shoot. 

Casey plays the guitar. T400CN through the Holga with bounce flash using crappy old Sunpak flash.