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Komarowski Rinok 1992/2004.
Minsk, Belarus | 1992.05 | film developed 2004
Canon A1 | prob'ly the Sigma 28/2.8 macro - it was used for 90% of my shooting in those days | Kodacolor Gold 400 shot as 1700 | scanned with Nikon cs-5000
This photo is from a roll of 400 speed print film that I'd loaded, for some reason, as 1700 and shot about a dozen or so photos between Holland and Belarus before I discovered the error. So I unloaded it, and figured I'd have the roll pushed (developed so that the shots would appear to some degree). I guess I must have later decided that I would do it myself, but since I didn't work with C-41 (the chemical process for color print film) much, it sat in my various freezers, following me around the whole time, always getting put back into the 'to be developed - later' bag... So, in 2004, I finally did some C-41 and decided I'd better do this roll! I did a fair bit of calculating on how long to time things, temperatures, etc., and whola, some strange result. Interesting exaggerated grain, odd color areas from freeze-thaw, storage, & a dozen years' gamma rays, etc. Interesting to me how the weird crinkly-looking grain seems to match the detail in the upper letters and the facade; also how the center area remains clearest, while the edges fade to distortion - just enough here to get a real sense of what it was like at the time, and the variety in the people is also good, I think. I did a fast post-scan process on this one evening when I was quickly sending a bunch of Soviet-themed photos to a friend from those days, one after another, on the e-mail for fun while discussing the things that came to mind from them. Here's what I said about this one as I sent it:
"this one is minsk 1992. It's a roll of kodak print 400, i think, that
i'd accidentally shot at ~1700 before I noticed. So I took it out of
the camera when I saw that crazy setting!, at about photo 13, and
didn't develop it until - 2004! (when I was doing some c-41 and could
push it that far; no reputable yet cheap enough for me lab'd do that). tried a few
fast photoshop zaps, though very little changed in the photo as if stubborn. so this isn't
going to change much from what we see here... i like it."
... so, here it is, very colourful. I do like it. I spent a lot of time shopping there when I lived in Minsk 1992-1993, and before, and after; some odd hours, too. There are stories, stories. Those were the days.
