Trying out the Redscale

I was browsing this particular group called Lomomanila in an online photo gallery called Flicker when I came across with a certain technique that I can actually do with my Diana F+ camera. I was pinned with the word Redscale and so I’ve done some research to know how the technique works and how to apply it.

(Here is the site that I came across with on how to do a home made redscale film http://fmphotocourses.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-make-redscale-film.html )

Well, redscale is just another technique were in the concept is to use the wrong side of the film in taking photographs. Not to be hard on oneself there are ready made redscale film available in the market but doing a home made one out of ordinary films adds excitement to the whole lomography experience.

While I was doing mine, I need to hide in the cabinet (since I don’t have a dark room) to insure that the yank films will never get exposed to any light. And with high hopes that the yank film which was loaded back to the other canister will also be as useful as the other film.

Then under the scourging heat of the sun here in Bahrain I snap some photos of summer bits from my Diana F+ with the own modified redscale film. The summer fun and the reddish looks of the output pictures seems to add flavor to the meaning of Bahrain in Summer eventually it also looks so vintage that you might wonder what era those photos are taken. Here are some of the pictures that I have taken: (best viewed when wearing some sunglasses, lol! )

Diana

“We do not know which act of providence brought you here. But we can safely assume that you do not know what you’re in for. Taking a trip through the illustrious realms of Diana, Diana +, and Diana F+ is by no means an organized journey. You’ll find yourself alone and a bit confused - facing the most wild, exciting, dangerous, charming, sinful, and unforeseeable adventures and opportunities ahead of you. “

- Diana F+ (more true tales & short stories), Lomography, p. 6

The idea of lomography was introduced to me by a generous friend. She was into it for some years already and she just keep inspiring us with the beautiful outputs she had made with her Holga.

One day we passed by to this not so techie shop in one of the malls in Bahrain to see something they could offer to a window shopper. Then the set of cameras displayed in a shelve attract our attention, they were toy cameras. Then she introduced to us the word lomography (see doy+lomo for brief history) where in she purchased her Super sampler to give a mate to her Holga.

Suddenly I feel in love with the word “lomography” and decided to explore the possibilities of being one. All I need was a good partner (camera) and I’m ready to be one of the group called lomographers.

As we come back to pay some visit to the same shop, we were amazed to see the wide variety of toy cameras that just arrived for there display. and then I meet Diana. A week after I come back to the shop and bought my own handy lomo camera, she was a shiny one, Diana F+ (Chromiacs). Early next day I was set to feel the beauty of Diana F+ (with the help of Liza I was able to take some shots by borrowing her 35 mm film back and fish eye lens).

Here are what me and my Diana F+ experience in one of those fine sunny day in Bahrain.