• camera: pinsta go pinhole
• filter: red transparency
• film stock: fomapan 100 (4×5 sheet film)
• developer: black walnut
• scanner: epson v600
• digital processing: GIMP ///
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the Pinsta GO* pinhole camera that Lindsey got me for birthday last December. I haven’t had much time to use it lately (damn you, work!), but the last time I did, I wanted to see if I could add a red filter to it.
So, I took some random color transparency from a Lomography Diana F+ flash that I have (Lindsey got me this camera also) and taped it over the pinhole.
I knew from experience that the black walnut extraction that I made last year works well with fomapan film (as opposed to ilford hp5+, which it stains almost to the point of non-usability). When using my standard caffenol recipe, fomapan always came out a little thin and flat for my liking, but when I use the walnut extract, it comes out looking beautiful! This is the first time I developed foma sheet film using the black walnut extraction.
I made this photo at a marsh near Pine Lake in Plainwell, MI and developed it in the black walnut extraction (plus: washing soda, vitamin c, potassium bromide). I scanned it using my Epson v600 in two passes–the 4×5 inch negative is too large for the transparency section of the scanner–and stitched the two images together manually using GIMP.
-Pauly
*This camera is great! It’s so much fun to use, and I’ve been loading it with direct positive paper, negative paper, and sheet film (as above)! I can develop the images directly in the camera using a very small amount of developer (20-ish ml), which means I can reduce the resources that I’m using, and create less waste.
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