First I used the Epsom 750 in The Hub ....that was incredibly tempramental. Kevin from the ERC came to look at it for me and he made it work, but I couldn't. Then I decided to use the Hasslblad Scanner in the Digital Dark Room next to The Cove. I didn't feel too confident about using this because although I had been inducted, I hadn't used it since that day.
Luckily for me Chris was at hand, he was a great help. We still had problems though. Everything had a green caste which made me think that I had done something very wrong when I shot the images, or worse, there was something wrong with my lovely Mamiya Medium Format Camera. Ben joined us and tried to help, then Phil, and finally Luke took a look and went into great detail about the callibration and histograms etc. This was all beyond me.
But finally my images were scanned, and they looked ok. In fact I had double exposed some. It had been the first colour film I had shot with the Mamiya and I had had no Light Meter to measure the light , I had made educated guesses about the aperture and shutter speeds. I am quite happy with some of the double exposed shots, they look "arty" and I think quite effective. I was hoping to submit my entry to the Fujifilm Student Award competition, but today I gave three more films to the ERC to be processed by Specturum, so I want to wait until these are returned before I make my final decision about my submission. The closing date is February 28th 2011.
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