street photography

And now back to the artsy stuff…3 emulsions part 2

WolfenColor NC400…. Or is it 200?

Here’s a wild card, an alleged new emulsion from Orwo. TBC I did not pay $23 a roll for this, short dated rolls were on sale at B&H for under $10, which meets the criteria so why not 🙂

From Orwo’s web site:

“WOLFEN NC400 is a brand, new 400 ASA, 36 exposure, colour photographic film…. Proudly still produced in Bitterfeld-Wolfen on the original site where film manufacture has been a tradition since 1910…. At the core of our new colour film lies a unique chemical formula based on the wonderful and legendary Agfa stock last used in the BAFTA award winning film ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’….”

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. And this film stock is… well a little strange. So the same rules as the roll of Kodak: Nikon F6 in matrix metering mode with an AfD 28-105 f/3.5-4.5 zoom lens, bracketing exposers around box speed over and under 1 stop with normal development. Different days and different light, but only so much you can control. I’m not sure what they were going for with this one. If someone has some old Agfa negs to compare that would be interesting. At box speed (400iso) the colors are quite muted with lots of grain and a mild shift to the blues that leaves me feeling mildly underexposed. It completely falls apart underexposed a full stop and the blue shift gets pretty dramatic. It does however to come to life when overexposed a full stop and I’ll be shooting the rest of this batch at 200. Interesting.

Temple Hospital Workers Vigil for Alex Pretti

Unionized Temple Hospital healthcare workers held a vigil and speak-out last night for Alex Pretti and all other victims of Ice violence. There was grief and anger in the frigid air… and resolve to fight back.

Alex Pretti and Renee Good are not the first, and I fear won’t be the last. The history of civil rights and class struggle are written in the blood of our ancestors. There is a storm coming and we need to get ready for the fight.

I remain an optimist. The American working class has a deep history of struggle. It will take hard work. It will be complicated. There will be many painful learning experiences. The results are not guaranteed. But I am confident that we will find our feet and rise to the challenges facing us.

Organize your block

Organize your workplace

Organize your school

Go Birds – Fuck Ice

Solidarity.

Solidarity with MSP – Ice Out for Good!!

Philly hit the streets last night in solidarity with the January 23 Minneapolis strike to kick Ice out.

When we fight eachother for crumbs off the table it only makes the bosses stronger. We need to stop the deportations now! Full legal status for all!

We need a job for everyone who wants to work with union wages and working conditions. We need safe and reliable public transit. We need fully funded schools and city services. We need improved Medicare for all free at point of service, not massive cuts to Medicaid and medieval work requirements.

We don’t need masked and strapped thugs snatching our friends, neighbors and coworkers off the street. If we let them get away with it, this occupying army will be snatching us off picket lines next.

It’s time to get organized before Ice comes to Philly in force. Join an existing neighborhood response group or organize one on your block. Get trained up and know your rights. Support local orgs already doing this work:

NoIcePhilly

Juntos

New Sanctuary

Both Dems and Republicans have failed us. Both parties take the bosses money and keep us arguing with each other. It’s long past time to build a new working class party to fight for what need now instead of what the boss tells us is ‘reasonable’.

Shot with Fuji XT-5 w/Fujinon 16-80 f4

Twilight Into Night

A winters evening stroll through Center City Philadelphia. There’s always magic in the twilight. The city changes shape and sound. The sharp winter air cuts through and the debris of the day hides in the shadows. The night slowly comes to life.

Old Camera – Funky Light

An afternoon stroll through Philly’s Christmas Village with a couple rolls of black and film.

Yashica D TLR loaded with 120 format Ilford Delta100
Hand processed in Perceptol. Scanned at Halide Project.

Philly Xmass Village – Film Scans: Yashica D Ilford Delta 100

Street work with Cinestill400

Some sample frames from work in progress. Shot 2 rolls of 35mm Cinestill400, a motion picture film that’s been repurposed and marketed for still photography and standard C41 lab chemistry. Found a few light leaks, some interesting color shifts and contrast effects but nothing that would make me use it instead of a more traditional emulsion unless that’s all we’ve got after the zombie apocalypse 🙂