The Agfachrome 64 experiment: Does AP-41โ‡’(C-41/E-6)=โ˜…?

Wow… Thanks to that blog post title, I just made five people’s brains explode like the opening scene of Scanners!ย  And twenty other people just ran to find their old grade school algebra texts! Anyways… In the photographic world of cross-processing (XPRO), photographers create surreal and astounding photographs by dipping their undeveloped film into alternate…

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Week 7 of the 2011 Elbo Room $1,000 Spring Tournament

Unfortunately, due to a previous commitment, I wasn’t able to get to the Elbo Room for trivia last night, and Jeremy and Alexis couldn’t make it either.ย  So thankfully General James gave me the updates on who picked up the points, so we can go from there. So here’s the standings after seven weeks. The…

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Another “Split Film” photo – Feeling hungry?

I haven’t done my “split film” photo trick in a while – cramming two rolls of 35mm film into one camera and then shooting away.ย  But last week, I prepared the Holga for another run of split film photos. Since I had to take a drive into Canada, I taped up the Holga with two…

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Reaction to the 50 year old photo project

About a month or two ago, I started showing some of my photos on the reddit “photocritique” subreddit forum.ย  The first one I displayed, the Coca-Cola “split film” image, suddenly got a ton of hits – and a visit from the editors of PetaPixel.com, who wanted to run an article on the tricky format.ย  I…

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A new photography project: Best if used before you were born

Your packaged food comes with an expiration date.ย  So do your batteries, your medicines and your camera film.ย  Depending on a film’s storage, you have a chance of getting acceptable photographs for up to a few years past the date printed on the film’s box or wrapper.ย  That’s why most photographers put their film in…

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One last high school goal… please let it come true.

In 2009, the Albany City School District created a Hall of Fame to honor those public high school students who have excelled post-graduation, and administrative staff (principals, teachers, etc.) who have guided these young minds on to greatness. The Hall of Fame accepts nominations for candidates associated with Albany’s public high schools, past and present.ย …

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