3.11

Shot a roll of 35 and 120 with my youngest at Settles Bridge Park: souping the 35, pushing the 120 intentionally 1 stop.

3.12

Soup on. Pics and video of the air escaping the can. Kinda cool.

3.16

Souped film is drying. Should be ready tomorrow to develop. Ev’s going to help.

3.23 - At last, I can post these dang pictures.

After his baseball game that day, we started on one of the paved trails before we found a little ‘off the path’ that led down a hill and followed a ravine that seemed to move towards the water.

I made him carry the 35 mm camera with a few lenses. I was lugging around the Mamiya RB67. It’s a beast of a camera but takes AMAZING pictures.

So the soup does some pretty interesting things to the film. In general, it definitely produces some sepia tones and really makes the brown of the pine straw and wood really come out in the image. Technically speaking, this concoction seems to really mess with the red/blue pixels and doesn’t really touch the greens that much.

The last image above is one of my favorites. It’s a weird, trippy, dreamy landscape that almost feels like night.

We kept moving down the trail and had to back track at some point to get across the ravine.

I helped him down the small hill and onto this little landing.

There’s a lot of these moments where I got a picture of him taking a picture and then have the picture he took or HIS version of the same picture I took. It’s really cool to see through his eyes.

Before we made it across the ravine, we walked down further and got to a spot on the river that I hadn’t been to before. It’s an amazing vantage point about 30 feet above the water. Ev got some really awesome pictures here.

This last one is kind of weird/spooky. It’s a house up on a hill above the river and I don’t even remember seeing it. The canted frame and what the soup did to the red pixels makes it look really cool.

There was this little path cut through the woods that led to the actual landing and parking area that they have riverside. I got the two pictures above real quick using my phone and then Ev snapped a pic of me headed down the path to the river.

We finally got to riverside and the location I was thinking the entire time. The Bridge. Ev snapped a few quick shots in succession here. I’m not sure I he was going for the ‘panorama’ effect here or not.

The black and white images are the ones I shot on the RB.

All in all, film souping is fun and will yield vastly different results but this was a good concoction to begin with. It was pretty tame overall. I freaking love the pictures and how they came out and I think Ev is pretty happy with them too.

If you’re interested in more about film soup here’s some people that are far more experienced than I:

Film Soup Recipes

Learn to Shoot Film Soup

Lomography Recipes