I discovered redscale film quite some time back, even before Lomography International made a big deal (and money) outta it. I remember stumbling upon this DIY guide online and struggled a while to understand what it’s all about and how to get it done, then ended up only shooting a roll or two of it and somehow forgotten all about it until recently when (almost?) everyone’s excited about it when Lomography and their clever marketing team keep trying to promote their redscale film on their website. Redscale film is actually reversing a roll of film and then exposing the back of the film instead of the usual ‘correct’ side of it.
Found a roll of expired 24 exposure Fuji 400 film (can’t remember exactly which film it was) and made a roll of redscale outta it and took me a couple of weeks to finish it. Not that I wasn’t trigger happy anymore, but I was busy with life as usual. Unfortunately, about half the exposures turned out pretty bad … underexposed. I’m thinking maybe the next time, I should over expose 2 stops instead of 1. Hmm …
Scanning redscale film ain’t really fun, and luckily the Epson software that came with my scanner seem to perform better than Silverfast when it comes to scanning em. If you’re interested to find out how to make your own redscale film, check out the link on the left of this page. I realised the fun part of doing redscale is not only the bizzarre colors, but also the unexpected results you’ll get from redscaling different film. Some I saw gives you more orange tones, some are reddish and some even produces some outta this world results.
these images are on fire!
Cyan … glad to have you back here! *evil laugh*
Yeah, they seem to be on fire. Don’t know why but this roll turned out really fiery, perhaps like what you said … 400 film gives more red eh?
That is original! The color is so hot! Wow. Haven’t seen anything like that before. And don’t think I can replicate that technique either … lol.