#coffee developer

Putting my barista skills to the test part 2.

Here are some of the final outcomes! Although the negatives were quite light - could probably do with a few more minutes of developing time - after scanning them and tweaking the brightness and contrast in Photoshop, they look pretty good! I am really happy with the results considering they are a first test.

One mistake I did make was leaving the film to dry by the tumble dryer in my house, which resulted in lots of dust on the film which I thankfully eradicated with some Photoshop magic - but it has taught me to go extremely careful in future! Prevention of dust is so much easier than removing it digitally!

Foma Forest, #film

Caffenol, #film

Fomapan 100, home made Caffenol developer.

So, I didn’t know about developing film in coffee until recently. Of course, I had to give it a go. Firstly, I’ve never used Fomapan, ever. I bought it because it was cheap. Then I forgot that a Canon EOS 5000 only takes DX coded films (no ISO adjustment), so god knows what ISO it was shot at (maybe 400 as that was the last DX film used in the camera).

A je to angleški prevod neke eksotične živali? Znamka cigaret? E, ne! To je mlada tri-članska zasedba iz Latvije. Kako opisati njihovo glasbo? Najlažje bi bilo, da kliknete sem in sami ugotovite ali si zastonj snamete komade. Sama pa lahko omenim, da v zasedbi najdemo preciznega bobnarja, živahno bass linijo in električno kitaro obdano z nekaj efekti. Predstavljajte si po svoje ali pa samo kliknite na link, ki se skriva med stavki. ;) Če so vam pa prav všeč in bi radi to povedali na dandanes korekten način, lahko to storite ja, prav tu! Lahko jih tudi najdete na več drugih popularnih straneh ali na ulicah Rige. Fantje so zelo natančni v tem kar delajo, zato so pesmi zdaj zunaj po precej dolgem času maturiranja in predelav. Ampak studijsko delo je super in posneli so vse popolnoma sami! To pa veste, da za neizkušene zna trajati. ;) Čestitke! Končno rešeni tega "bremena" že načenjajo nove komade. Entusiastično pravijo, da hočejopreseči vse kar so do sedaj naredili. No, vso srečo! Zakaj torej pišem o njih? Ne, niso me podkupili. Povabili so me na sodelovanje pri izdelavi "artworka" za cd, ki so se namenili izdelati. Vendar so se za sedaj odločili, da pustijo glasbo brezplačno, na spletnih straneh, kjer jih spremlja moja stvaritev kot glavna vizualna podoba benda. / Is it an animal? It is a tobacco brand? Hell no! It'a young three piece band from Latvia. How to describe their music? Well, the easiest it to click here, where you can directly listen or download song for free. Other way I can tell you there is a precise drum set, vibrant bass line and a guitar fooling on few effects. So imagine it for youself, or just klick on the link hiding between sentences. ;) If you like them and you want to show your liking in the formal way nowadays,  you can do it guess three times where. You can also find then on other popular internet pages, or on streets of Riga. As these boys are really accurate in what they do the songs are out after some time of maturation and finishing. But studio work is amazing and done entirely by themselves. And that you might know that takes time if you don't have years and years of experience. Congratulations guys! Finally gotten this load from their shoulders, they're already starting new songs. Enthusiasm talking out of their asses said they want to overcome what they've done till now. Well good luck with that! Well, why am I writing about them? No they didn't made me do it. They asked for collaborating for the artwork of the cd they wanted to make. But for now they decided to leave stuff for free, on web pages, so my work is present there now, as the main visual image of the band.