Grand-niece Tess, formidable young writer/photographer, sent me some results of her test of expired color film. I had passed on to her a bunch of old film rolls, ranging from thirty to fifty years of age that I recently found packed away in my studio. Here is one example, replete with unexpected red speckles, that she sends back of her experiment:
Original Image by Tess from 30+ Year Expired E-6 Film
So I made a dozen or so variations — mostly exploiting and emphasizing the red “noise” — but I also was curious about how soft I could make a small crop from the image when I deliberately tried to get rid of those spots. Here’s the result:
B&W, Cropped and Softened by Lawrence