Green Infinity

20Apr11

Wow. Haven’t done much with this blog, but that’s going to change!! Recently did some wet-mount scanning at pcnw. Here’s an additional image from a trip last summer to Eastern Washington – a classic farmland landscape. In my head I’m calling this one “Green Infinity” due to the figure-8 configuration of the tilled rows.

I have a few more I’ll be working on from that time period, too. Not sure I’m totally in love with the wet-mount scanning method (glass plate on a flatbed scanner, squirt an alcohol-based liquid, place your film into it, cover with more liquid, then cover with a sheet of clear virgin plastic to seal, rub out the bubbles, then scan). This is my first expeienced with it. At least it gets rid of the nasty newton rings I grapple with on my scanner at home (Nikon 9000 with a $300 glass plate negative holder, grr). I’m not fully convinced the wet-mounting is getting the grain in the film, have to do a print test too.

Anyway, here’s one of the best landscapes from the shoot (not yet color corrected or cleaned up much at all):