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10 Shots From My Lomography Redscale First Use

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Redscale Films are just basically film rolls that are shot in reverse. I’ve been wanting to use redscale and Lomo Purple ever since I started shooting film, and I’m going to share with you my experience on my first try with Lomo Redscale. So here are 10 out of 36 exposures with a short narrative how I shot each.

Brief Intro:

Soo, I noticed darker colors and those in the shadows tend to be Black, and those in the highlights were either white or light yellow. Overall each photo give a “red” look as they all look very warm and saturated. Some look slightly brown and maroon depending on the metering.

Before using Lomo redscale, I gave it a little research. And so, I learned that redscale film should be exposed 1-2 stops from the original ISO. I bought my first redscale film at around $10 way back in 2021. On the label, it says 100-400 ISO. So, of course, to be safe, I shot most of it at 200 using Konica C35 EF.

Shot #1: Double Exposure

I didn’t know if redscale would suit portraits, but, I’m sure it would look good on foliage. So this is the only portrait I have using this film stock. With Konica C35 EF, you can’t really customize your metering. In able to have this double exposure shot, I first took a photo of a landscape in the shadows, rewound the film a bit, and asked my friend to pose where the sunlight directly hits her. That way, she would still stand out.

Shot #2: Train Railway

Another subject I chose to shoot with redscale is the train railway because I think it would be great with lines. In this case, all the lines vanish at one point so I think it’s good it has movement, albeit the photo looked grim because of the weathered character of the concrete. My friend said it looks like a poster from a horror movie. Haha!

Shot #3: Ferris Wheel

Too much noise, is it? Because I shot this at sunset time and of course, from below. I scanned and developed the negatives myself so I tried to compensate for the underexposure. It’s very limited when using point and shoot camera.

Shot #4: Couple

Shooting sunset on redscale film is a big no-no. Sunset is warm, redscale is warm, soo… what am I thinking? I decided to shot these 2 from behind, maybe they are a couple, maybe they aren’t. I don’t know, I was just glad I wasn’t caught.

Shot #5: Tree Silhouette

I like the details of this one. I always liked capturing the shape of leaves and they showed in the silhouette. It looked like sunset, but, I actually shot this at noon. I’m satisfied with the color.

Shot #6: Meadow

Shot this late in the afternoon while I was taking walk. Although it did not focus on the subject and it looks very blurred, it gave me an impression that it’s windy. I can easily imagine the grass swaying.

Shot #7: Tree

I just saw this tree from our neighbor’s yard and I like its shape. Soo, I captured it. Nothing fancy!

Shot #8: Geometric

Here I can really see the color range redscale has. This showed the colors you can get from shooting redscale in each shape. (It was also late afternoon, and I can recall it was gloomy weather.)

Shot #9: Light leak

Ahh, the first shot from the roll! I’m glad those 3 people weren’t headless. By the way it’s bright sunny daytime and because of the shelter it looked shaded and underexposed. Shooting redscale can be a little unpredictable. Next time, I would use a manual film camera for this film stock.

Shot #10: Fountain

I always pass by this fountain in our block and I’m glad I shot this using redscale, It gave a different kind of drama, lol! Well, aside from the subject being NOT in the center, I like the details and maybe I should’ve overexposed it a little bit more.

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How about you? What do you think of these red photos? Have you tried using redscale? What are your thoughts?

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