{"id":637,"date":"2025-08-21T19:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/?p=637"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:12:18","slug":"downtown-sf-expired-lomography-redscale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/2025\/08\/21\/downtown-sf-expired-lomography-redscale\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown SF (Expired Lomography Redscale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously enjoyed shooting fresh Lomography Redscale, a reverse-spooled color film that uses the tinted film back as a filter of sorts, at ISO 200.\u00a0 The film has an extended range, and having shot it at ISO 400 in the past and deemed it too underexposed, I was pleased with it at ISO 200.\u00a0 So, when I decided to use long-expired rolls as part of my refrigerator-film-drawer clearing project, I decided to shoot them at ISO 200.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that really wasn&#8217;t slow enough! This decade-plus expired film took on a new look, with nearly teal, profoundly grainy shadows.\u00a0 The results are nearly &#8220;duochrome,&#8221; with the primary colors being pale orange and nearly teal green.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-638 .fg-image { width: 150px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-638 { --fg-gutter: 10px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foogallery fg-center fg-default fg-ready fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-638\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" 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src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aeg_redscale-wave20033.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"644\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orange and green image of stone wave details\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2025\/08\/aeg_redscale-wave20033\/2793404863.jpeg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aeg_redscale-column0019.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"645\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orange and green image of corinthian columns at the Bank of California\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2025\/08\/aeg_redscale-column0019\/1973470959.jpeg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>The grain is excessive to me, and I&#8217;m considering smoothing it digitally to play up the duochrome-like characteristics.\u00a0 I&#8217;m unsure I am brave enough to shoot the remaining roll at ISO 100 in hopes of better contrast.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I don&#8217;t regret trying this film to see what I would get: these kinds of surprises are why daring photographers play with expired film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously enjoyed shooting fresh Lomography Redscale, a reverse-spooled color film that uses the tinted film back as a filter of sorts, at ISO 200.\u00a0 The film has an extended range, and having shot it at ISO 400 in the past and deemed it too underexposed, I was pleased with it at ISO 200.\u00a0 So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,23],"tags":[76,53,8],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analog-film","category-color","category-lomochrome","tag-contax-g2","tag-lomography-redscale","tag-san-francisco","entry","fw-tab-6 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