Analogue Day

I had a great day in the darkroom yesterday, processing five 120 films, two of which were colour.  I had never tried develping colour film before and wanted to give it a go using my waterbath that I bought a while back for cheesemaking!  I had seen some videos on YouTube that suggested it was not that difficult if the temperature can be controlled, so decided to give it a go.

The above shot is the finished article after a process of development, scanning using my Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark iii camera and the 60mm f/2.8 macro lens and a light box.  I then imported the images into Lightroom, set the white balance and inverted them in Photoshop before returning the inverted image to Lightroom for a bit of normal post processing.

The final images are not great because I was having a bit of difficulty wth colour balance when shooting the negative scans, and I got some of the settings on the camera a bit wrong as well, so they are a little grainy, but I can do it again as the negatives look pretty good.

Here are the various stages of development leading to the final image above:

RAW Negative

White Balance Adjusted Negative

Inverted Negative

Here are some of my other images created in this way: