Project collections: Pez further work in progress
This one took more than I expected. More time, more effort, more failures, more running around, more money, more film.
These are test shots but I have to say after setting up alone took 2 hours I am pretty pleased and glad it looks the way it is so far.
I have shot the photos with a Hasselblad (medium format film camera, check previous posts) and a macro lens in a studio. The test shots before the test shots (confused? so am I) were photographed with a Polaroid back, which is pretty cool.
So these are the Polaroids
After that I used 160 ISO Kodak film with the original Hasselblad camera and then I processed the film at BDI (recommended) and got a contact sheet to see if anything needs fixing.
They all look quite nice (disregarding my poor alignment) and vintage looking. It may also be due to the fact that the film itself was pretty old, in any case, I think job well done here.
So far I've only scanned one negative to see how it properly looks on big screen, and the result is in front of you.
I'm really happy with it- it's not bad at all. Specially if I'm considering the amount of time and effort it took to get this to work properly.
Another thing I encountered was that there was flaring coming from the inside of the dispensers, it's quite transparent if you put an extra flash at the bottom (as I shot these on perspex). I don't mind it- I actually like it. But after this I have tried 2 extra rolls of the same thing only with white paper on top of the table to block flaring. Results might take some time to get posted as I have over 10 rolls to process and scan.